CVE-2005-2871
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…
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 21.1%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 21.11% probability · 97th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0316.html
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112624614008387&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16764
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16766
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16767
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17042
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17090
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17263
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17284
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/83
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014877
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-303.shtml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-837
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-11.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/573857US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-57.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/19255
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00004.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-768.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-769.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html
- http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5RP0B0UGVW.html
- http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17-advisory.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.htmlExploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14784
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-181-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1690
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.