CVE-2005-4720 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and earlier on Linux. Remote attackers can crash the client by using an IFRAME element with an excessively large WIDTH attribute, leading to an infinite loop of widget resizes due to floating-point representation issues. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in partial availability impact. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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