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>> Mozilla Browsers "history.dat" Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Mozilla Browsers "history.dat" Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2805
CVE ID : CVE-2005-4134
CWE ID : CWE-OVAL1619
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-12-08

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A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Firefox, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error when handling large history information passed the the "history.dat" file (e.g. an overly large title), which could be exploited via a specially crafted Web page to cause a vulnerable application to crash or consume a large amount of system resources [...]

Affected Products

Mozilla Firefox version 1.5 and prior
Mozilla Suite version 1.7.12 and prior

Credits

Vulnerability reported by ZIPLOCK

ChangeLog

2005-12-08 : Initial release
2005-12-08 : Updated References
2006-02-02 : Updated Solution

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