CVE-2005-4720
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 y anteriores en Linux permite a atacantes remotos provocar una denegación de servicio (caída del cliente) mediante un elemento IFRAME con un valor grande del atributo WIDTH, lo que desencadena un problema relacionado con la representación de números de punto flotante, dando lugar a un bucle infinito de redimensionamientos de widgets y a un gran número correspondiente de llamadas a funciones en la pila.
Traducción automática del texto original de NVD (en inglés).
CVSS
- Versión: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Puntuación base: 5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 8.41%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 95
- Fecha de la puntuación: 14/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
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- Publicado en Exploit-DB · Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6/1.0.7 - iFrame Handling Denial of Service (5/10/2005)
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-Other
Referencias
- 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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