>> Mozilla Browsers "history.dat" Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : Mozilla Browsers "history.dat" Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2805 CVE ID : CVE-2005-4134 CWE ID : CWE-OVAL1619
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-12-08
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Firefox, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error when handling large history information passed the the "history.dat" file (e.g. an overly large title), which could be exploited via a specially crafted Web page to cause a vulnerable application to crash or consume a large amount of system resources.
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