CVE-2005-0592

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CVE-2005-0592

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CVE-2005-0592 at MITRE

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the UTF8ToNewUnicode function for Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via invalid sequences in a UTF8 encoded string that result in a zero length value.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 74445 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2006:022, published Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:04:22 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:11:49 2023