CVE-2005-4720

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via an IFRAME element with a large value of the WIDTH attribute, which triggers a problem related to representation of floating-point numbers, leading to an infinite loop of widget resizes and a corresponding large number of function calls on the stack.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.0.6, 1.0.7

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17071
http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015011
http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15015
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433
http://secunia.com/advisories/17071
http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015011
http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15015
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433

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