CVE-2005-4134
Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers...
Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox. Also, it has been independently reported that Netscape 8.1 does not have this issue.
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
5.0
Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox. Also, it has been independently reported that Netscape 8.1 does not have this issue.
- Record
CVE-2005-4134- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox. Also, it has been independently reported that Netscape 8.1 does not have this issue.
- Record
CVE-2005-4134- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2005-4129 No score
Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox. Also, it has been independently reported that Netscape 8.1 does not have this issue.
- Record
EUVD-2005-4129- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-q5x9-vpfc-fjcq No score
Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers...
Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox. Also, it has been independently reported that Netscape 8.1 does not have this issue.
- Record
GHSA-q5x9-vpfc-fjcq- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
mozilla-firefoxDebian:3.1 |
before 1.0.4-2sarge6, plus listed versions 1.0.4-21.0.4-2sarge11.0.4-2sarge21.0.4-2sarge31.0.4-2sarge41.0.4-2sarge5 |
1.0.4-2sarge6 |
mozillaDebian:3.1 |
before 2:1.7.8-1sarge5, plus listed versions 2:1.7.8-12:1.7.8-1sarge12:1.7.8-1sarge22:1.7.8-1sarge3 |
2:1.7.8-1sarge5 |
mozilla-thunderbirdDebian:3.1 |
before 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.8, plus listed versions 1.0.2-21.0.2-2.sarge1.0.61.0.2-2.sarge1.0.7 |
1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.8 |
firefoxRed Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as |
before 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 | 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 |
firefox-debuginfoRed Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as |
before 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 | 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 |
firefoxRed Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop |
before 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 | 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 |
firefox-debuginfoRed Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop |
before 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 | 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 |
firefoxRed Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es |
before 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 | 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 |
firefox-debuginfoRed Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es |
before 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 | 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 |
firefoxRed Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws |
before 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 | 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 |
firefox-debuginfoRed Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws |
before 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 | 0:1.0.7-1.4.3 |
Public exploits
Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.
| Source | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Exploit-DB | Mozilla Firefox 0.x/1.x - Large History File Buffer Overflow | 2005-12-08 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, Exploit-DB, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2005-4134 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) in K-meleon Project K-meleon, published December 9, 2005. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.6%, the 96th percentile. Fixed in mozilla-firefox 1.0.4-2sarge6.
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