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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100040 Date: 2007-04-23
Title: Mozilla String Library Memory Overwrite Vulnerability
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.
Version: 5 Class: vulnerability
Status: ACCEPTED Reference(s): CVE-2005-0255
Family: windows
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows NT
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s): mozilla
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
Definition Synopsis:

OVAL is CVE Compatible