Vulnerability Details 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 "soft" hyphens (character 0xAD), which is not properly handled by the NormalizeIDN call in nsStandardURL::BuildNormalizedSpec.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.516
EPSS Ranking 97.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
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/573857
- 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.txt
- http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14784
- 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
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259
- 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://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/573857
- 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.txt
- http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14784
- 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
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259
- 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
Products affected by CVE-2005-2871
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.5