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.
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http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-837 cve-icon cve-icon
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/573857 cve-icon cve-icon
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http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5RP0B0UGVW.html cve-icon cve-icon
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http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html cve-icon cve-icon
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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-181-1 cve-icon cve-icon
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1691 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22207 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2871 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1287 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A584 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9608 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2871 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2005-09-09T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:53:29.438Z

Reserved: 2005-09-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-2871

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-09-09T18:03:00.000

Modified: 2018-05-03T01:29:31.037

Link: CVE-2005-2871

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-2871 - Bugzilla