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.
Affected products
- k-meleon_project / k-meleon0.9
- k-meleon_project / k-meleon0.7 – 0.7
- k-meleon_project / k-meleon0.7_service_pack_1 – 0.7_service_pack_1
- k-meleon_project / k-meleon0.8 – 0.8
- k-meleon_project / k-meleon0.8.1 – 0.8.1
- k-meleon_project / k-meleon0.8.2 – 0.8.2
- Mozilla / Firefox1.5
- Mozilla / mozilla_suite1.7.12
- netscape / navigator8.0.40
- netscape / navigator7.1 – 7.1
- netscape / navigator7.2 – 7.2
References
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:036
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19902
- MISChttp://www.osvdb.org/21533
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:037
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/17944
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19941
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/17946
- MAILING_LISThttp://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113405896025702&w=2
- MISChttp://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-February/msg00005.html
- MISChttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-12.xml
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/21622
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19862
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19230
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/18704
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-history.html
- MISChttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-205.htm
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1051
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/18709
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/271-1/
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/18705
- MISChttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16476
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0413
- MISChttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-03.html
- MISChttp://securitytracker.com/id?1015328
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19746
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/21033
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/18700
- MISChttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102550-1
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19759
- MISChttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0200.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/18706
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/17934
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15773
- MISChttp://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-February/msg00006.html
- MISChttp://www.mozilla.org/security/history-title.html
- MISChttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0199.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19863
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425978/100/0/threaded
- MISChttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11382
- VENDOR_ADVISORYftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060201-01-U
- MISCftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.26/SCOSA-2006.26.txt
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/18708
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2805
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425975/100/0/threaded
- MISChttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1619
- MAILING_LISThttp://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113404911919629&w=2
- MISChttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-228526-1
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19852
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3391
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1046
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1044