CVE-2007-5691 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2007-5691?

CVE-2007-5691 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 29 Oct 2007. 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

ParseFTPList.cpp in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.7 allows remote FTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted reply to an unspecified listing command, related to "reading from invalid pointer."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-5691?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2007-5691?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-5691 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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-2007-5691 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-5691 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-p6h6-f79f-g6cp.