CVE-2005-4134 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service via CPU consumption and delayed startup by hosting a website with an excessively large title.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2005-4134?
CVE-2005-4134 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 9 Dec 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
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4134?
It affects 4 products.
Products include K-Meleon Project K-Meleon, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Mozilla Suite, Netscape Navigator.
How do I fix CVE-2005-4134?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2005-4134 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-4134 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q5x9-vpfc-fjcq.