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CVE-2005-2265

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 p…

Public exploit code

Working exploit or proof of concept code has been published for this vulnerability. Treat unpatched systems as at risk.

Impact

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 products

VendorProductAffected versions
MozillaFirefox
Versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.10
MozillaMozilla
Versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.6

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