CVE-2005-2265: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 68.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.

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 2005-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.