CVE-2005-2265

CVE Database · CVE-2005-2265

CVE-2005-2265

· N/AModified

CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

68.10%

Published

Jul 13, 2005

Modified

Apr 15, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit (3)

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Exploit-DBMozilla Suite/Firefox - InstallVersion->compareTo() Code Execution (Metasploit)Exploit-DBMozilla Suite/Firefox < 1.0.5 - compareTo Code Execution (Metasploit)TrickestTrickest PoC index

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

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.

Affected Products (38)

mozilla · firefoxvulnerable

· firefox

References (20)

http://secunia.com/advisories/16043

http://secunia.com/advisories/16044

http://secunia.com/advisories/16059

http://secunia.com/advisories/19823

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.html

PatchVendor Advisory

http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-multiple-issues.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_45_mozilla.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html

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