Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox. Also, it has been independently reported that Netscape 8.1 does not have this issue.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
---|---|---|---|
Mozilla_suite | Mozilla | * | 1.7.12 |
K-meleon | K-meleon_project | 0.8.2 | 0.8.2 |
K-meleon | K-meleon_project | 0.8.1 | 0.8.1 |
K-meleon | K-meleon_project | 0.7 | 0.7 |
Navigator | Netscape | 7.1 | 7.1 |
Navigator | Netscape | 7.2 | 7.2 |
Firefox | Mozilla | * | 1.5 |
Navigator | Netscape | * | 8.0.40 |
K-meleon | K-meleon_project | * | 0.9 |
K-meleon | K-meleon_project | 0.7_service_pack_1 | 0.7_service_pack_1 |
K-meleon | K-meleon_project | 0.8 | 0.8 |