### [CVE-2005-2265](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.html
- http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-601.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295854
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160202

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.