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 resize the string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code by forcing an out-of-memory state that causes a reallocation to fail and return a pointer to a fixed address, which leads to heap corruption.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2005-02-28T05:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T21:05:25.449Z
Reserved: 2005-02-09T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2005-0255
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2005-05-02T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:54:44.253
Link: CVE-2005-0255
Redhat