CVE-2005-2414

medium

Description

Race condition in the xpcom library, as used by web browsers such as Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, and Galeon, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large HTML file that loads a DOM call from within nested DIV tags, which causes part of the currently rendering page and referenced objects to be deleted.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21472

http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00091-07212005

http://securitytracker.com/id?1014550

http://securitytracker.com/id?1014548

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112199282029269&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-08-03

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.05003