CVE-2005-2265 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2265
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA19823 Secunia Advisory: SA16059 Secunia Advisory: SA16044 Secunia Advisory: SA16043 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-587.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/oval/definitions/data/oval417.html http://oval.mitre.org/oval/definitions/data/oval781.html http://oval.mitre.org/oval/definitions/data/oval100008.html MISC http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.html FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810 CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.html CIAC http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml BID 14242

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