{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2005-0255", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "String handling functions in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, such as the nsTSubstring_CharT::Replace function, do not properly check the return values of other functions that resize the string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code by forcing an out-of-memory state that causes a reallocation to fail and return a pointer to a fixed address, which leads to heap corruption." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "12659", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659" }, { "name": "SUSE-SA:2005:016", "refsource": "SUSE", "url": "http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html" }, { "name": "19823", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/19823" }, { "name": "oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9111", "refsource": "OVAL", "url": "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111" }, { "name": "http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.html", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.html" }, { "name": "oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100040", "refsource": "OVAL", "url": "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040" }, { "name": "20050228 Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Browser Out Of Memory Heap Corruption Design Error", "refsource": "IDEFENSE", "url": "http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilities" }, { "name": "RHSA-2005:176", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html" }, { "name": "GLSA-200503-30", "refsource": "GENTOO", "url": "http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml" }, { "name": "RHSA-2005:277", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.html" }, { "name": "GLSA-200503-10", "refsource": "GENTOO", "url": "http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml" }, { "name": "SUSE-SA:2006:022", "refsource": "SUSE", "url": "http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html" }, { "name": "RHSA-2005:337", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html" } ] } }