CVE-2005-2265 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2005-2265?

CVE-2005-2265 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 13 Jul 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2265?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Mozilla.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2265?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2005-2265 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-2265 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5pgg-4c5c-9j5p.