CVE-2005-0592: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 0.8 only; version 0.9 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.10 only; …
• Mozilla Mozilla: version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.6 only; …

Published 2005-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.