gsd-2005-2871
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:20
Details
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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CVE-2005-2871


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      "lastModifiedDate": "2018-05-03T01:29Z",
      "publishedDate": "2005-09-09T18:03Z"
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}


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  • Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.