CVE-2005-4720 Information

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via an IFRAME element with a large value of the WIDTH attribute which triggers a problem related to representation of floating-point numbers leading to an infinite loop of widget resizes and a corresponding large number of function calls on the stack.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/17071 http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015011 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15015 http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x19-advisory.txt https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303433