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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0255
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CVE-2005-0255

Description:
String handling functions in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, such as the nsTSubstring_CharT::Replace function, do not properly check the return values of other functions that resize the string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code by forcing an out-of-memory state that causes a reallocation to fail and return a pointer to a fixed address, which leads to heap corruption.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA19823

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/oval/definitions/data/oval100040.html

IDEFENSE
  http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilities

GENTOO
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml

CONFIRM
  http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.html

BID
  12659


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