CVE-2004-1639

CVE-2004-1639 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 0.10, Mozilla 5.0, and Mozilla Gecko 20040913. Remote attackers can exploit this by tricking a user into opening a large binary file disguised with an .html extension, leading to an application crash or excessive memory consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is rated as medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, though its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.