CVE-2005-0592

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2005-02-24
Bugzilla:
1617550: CVE-2005-0592 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the UTF8ToNewUnicode function for Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via invalid sequences in a UTF8 encoded string that result in a zero length value.

Find out more about CVE-2005-0592 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (firefox) RHSA-2005:176 2005-03-01

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