CVEs-PoC/2005/CVE-2005-4720.md

CVE-2005-4720

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via an IFRAME element with a large value of the WIDTH attribute, which triggers a problem related to representation of floating-point numbers, leading to an infinite loop of widget resizes and a corresponding large number of function calls on the stack.

POC

Reference

• http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978
• http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt

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