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CVE-2005-2871

Published: Sep 09, 2005 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2871
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
FirefoxMozilla1.0 (including)1.0 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.1 (including)1.0.1 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.2 (including)1.0.2 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.3 (including)1.0.3 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.4 (including)1.0.4 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.5 (including)1.0.5 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.6 (including)1.0.6 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5-beta1 (including)1.5-beta1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHatfirefox-0:1.0.6-1.4.2*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHatthunderbird-0:1.0.7-1.4.1*
FirefoxUbuntudapper*
FirefoxUbuntudevel*
FirefoxUbuntuedgy*
FirefoxUbuntufeisty*
Firefox-granparadisoUbuntudevel*
Lightning-sunbirdUbuntudevel*
MidbrowserUbuntudevel*
MozillaUbuntudapper*
MozillaUbuntuedgy*
Mozilla-thunderbirdUbuntudapper*
Mozilla-thunderbirdUbuntuedgy*
Mozilla-thunderbirdUbuntufeisty*

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