CVE-2005-2265
N/A
Published: July 13, 2005 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorFirefoxMozilla
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 68%
Description
Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (22)
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resourcex_refsource_CIAC
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.htmlx_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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