Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2701

Title: Firefox/Mozilla Suite XBM image heap buffer overflow

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-2701.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Sep 23, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.86%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2701: Heap-based buffer overflow in Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XBM image file that ends in a large number of spaces instead of the expected end tag.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 2

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/16911 http://secunia.com/advisories/16917 http://secunia.com/advisories/16977 http://secunia.com/advisories/17014 http://secunia.com/advisories/17026 http://secunia.com/advisories/17149 http://secunia.com/advisories/17263 http://secunia.com/advisories/17284 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014954 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-838 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:169 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:170 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-58.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_58_mozilla.html http://www.osvdb.org/19643 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00004.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-785.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-789.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14916 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-200-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22373 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1480 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9323 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/16911 http://secunia.com/advisories/16917 http://secunia.com/advisories/16977 http://secunia.com/advisories/17014 http://secunia.com/advisories/17026 http://secunia.com/advisories/17149 http://secunia.com/advisories/17263 http://secunia.com/advisories/17284 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014954 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-838 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:169 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:170 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-58.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_58_mozilla.html http://www.osvdb.org/19643 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00004.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-785.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-789.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14916 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-200-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22373 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1480 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9323

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-2005-2701 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.

September 23, 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.