CVE-2004-1614: Medium severity Mozilla Mozilla vulnerability

Published Oct 18, 2004
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Updated

Mozilla allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from invalid memory access) via an "unusual combination of visual elements," including several large MARQUEE tags with large height parameters, as demonstrated by mangleme.

Affected Software

27 affected components
Mozilla Mozilla=1.4.2
Mozilla Mozilla=1.0.1
Mozilla Mozilla=1.2.1
Mozilla Mozilla=1.0-rc1
Mozilla Mozilla=1.2-alpha
Mozilla Mozilla=1.7
Mozilla Mozilla=1.1-beta
Mozilla Mozilla=1.0-rc2
Mozilla Mozilla=1.4.1
Mozilla Mozilla=1.4-beta
Mozilla Mozilla=1.2
Mozilla Mozilla=1.3
Mozilla Mozilla=1.2-beta
Mozilla Mozilla=1.0
Mozilla Mozilla=1.4
Mozilla Mozilla=1.5
Mozilla Mozilla=1.7.1
Mozilla Mozilla=1.4-alpha
Mozilla Mozilla=1.1
Mozilla Mozilla=1.1-alpha
Mozilla Mozilla=1.7.2
Mozilla Mozilla=1.0.2
Mozilla Mozilla=1.8-alpha2
Mozilla Mozilla=1.7-rc3
Mozilla Mozilla=1.7.3
Mozilla Mozilla=1.3.1
Mozilla Mozilla=1.6

Event History

Oct 18, 2004
CVE Published
04:00 AM
Feb 20, 2005
CVE Published
via MITRE·10:00 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·10:00 AM
Description

Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is the severity of CVE-2004-1614?

CVE-2004-1614 has a severity rating of moderate as it allows remote attackers to crash the application.

2

How do I fix CVE-2004-1614?

To fix CVE-2004-1614, update to a version of Mozilla that is not vulnerable to this denial of service issue.

3

What versions of Mozilla are affected by CVE-2004-1614?

CVE-2004-1614 affects multiple versions of Mozilla including 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and several others up until 1.7.3.

4

Can CVE-2004-1614 be exploited remotely?

Yes, CVE-2004-1614 can be exploited remotely by sending specially crafted HTML content to an unsuspecting user.

5

What types of attacks are associated with CVE-2004-1614?

CVE-2004-1614 is associated with denial of service attacks that cause the Mozilla application to crash due to invalid memory access.

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