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CVE-2005-2414
Published: Aug 3, 2005
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
Race condition in the xpcom library, as used by web browsers such as Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, and Galeon, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large HTML file that loads a DOM call from within nested DIV tags, which causes part of the currently rendering page and referenced objects to be deleted.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
20050721 Mozilla XPCOM Library Race Condition
mailing-list
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1014548
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x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00091-07212005
x_refsource_MISC
1014550
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
mozilla-xpcom-race-condition(21472)
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x_refsource_XF
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