01 Record
CVE-2005-0255
String handling functions in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, such as the nsTSubstring_CharT::Replace function, do not properly check the return values of other functions that
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
String handling functions in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, such as the nsTSubstring_CharT::Replace function, do not properly check the return values of other functions that
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.29% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-02-28 05:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 21:05Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-02-09
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c2b820cb7a78b9b5229c63d72f667b4f58bd35122475caa371f05c8a00357402
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com12659http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659
- www.novell.comSUSE-SA:2005:016http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html
- secunia.com19823http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:9111https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:100040https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040
- www.idefense.com20050228 Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Browser Out Of Memory Heap Corruption Design Errorhttp://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilities
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:176http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200503-30http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:277http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.html
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200503-10http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
- www.novell.comSUSE-SA:2006:022http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:337http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html