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Buffer overflow in the International Domain Name (IDN) support in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 and earlier and Netscape 8.0.3.3 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with all "soft" hyphens (character 0xAD) which is not properly handled by the NormalizeIDN call in nsStandardURL::BuildNormalizedSpec.

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9608

Buffer overflow in the International Domain Name (IDN) support in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 and earlier and Netscape 8.0.3.3 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with all "soft" hyphens (character 0xAD) which is not properly handled by the NormalizeIDN call in nsStandardURL::BuildNormalizedSpec.

Family:
unix
Status:
ACCEPTED
Platform(s):
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  • CentOS Linux 3
  • Oracle Linux 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • CentOS Linux 4
Class:
vulnerability
Reference(s):
  • CVE-2005-2871
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