CVE-2005-2871

high

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.

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0316.html

http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112624614008387&w=2

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22207

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1287

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A584

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9608

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/573857

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-57.html

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.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-181-1

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1690

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1691

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-09-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High