Heap Corruption Vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2

CVE-2005-0255 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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