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Case File

CVE-2005-0255

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 4.29%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2005-05-02 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2005-0255
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
4.29%
Firefox

Original Filing — NVD 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.