Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0592

Title: Firefox/Mozilla UTF8ToNewUnicode heap-based buffer overflow RCE/DoS

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0592.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 25, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.86%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0592: Heap-based buffer overflow in the UTF8ToNewUnicode function for Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via invalid sequences in a UTF8 encoded string that result in a zero length value.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 2

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-15.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241440 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100043 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10606 http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-15.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241440 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100043 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10606

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0592 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 25, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.