CVE-2005-4134 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12. Remote attackers can exploit this by crafting a webpage with an excessively long title, leading to high CPU consumption and delayed application startup when the browser processes its history. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a network attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial availability impact. Despite an ExploitDB entry mentioning a buffer overflow, the Mozilla vendor disputes the possibility of a crash or buffer overflow, and there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:k-meleon_project:k-meleon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:k-meleon_project:k-meleon:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.7_service_pack_1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:k-meleon_project:k-meleon:0.7_service_pack_1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:k-meleon_project:k-meleon:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:k-meleon_project:k-meleon:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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