CVE-2005-4720

Publication date 31 December 2005

Last updated 17 July 2025


Ubuntu priority

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via an IFRAME element with a large value of the WIDTH attribute, which triggers a problem related to representation of floating-point numbers, leading to an infinite loop of widget resizes and a corresponding large number of function calls on the stack.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected