19255 : Multiple Browser IDN URL Domain Name Overflow
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Sep 08, 2005

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(Description Provided by CVE) : 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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Attack Type: Input Manipulation

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References

Security Tracker: 1014877
Bugtraq ID: 14784
Secunia Advisory ID: 16764 16764 16766 16767 16772 16779 16780 16782 16784 16844 16960 16974 17057 17263 17284
CVE ID: 2005-2871 (see also: NVD)
ISS X-Force ID: 22207
CERT VU: 573857
Other Advisory URL: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20050902-01-U.asc http://security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17-advisory.txt
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-11.xml
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-181-1
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/niscc/docs/br-20050913-00792.html?lang=en
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0229.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0238.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0257.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0316.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0576.html
Generic Informational URL: http://news.com.com/Unpatched+Firefox+flaw+may+expose+users/2100-1002_3-5856201.h ......
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,104504,00.html ......
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware- ......
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-57.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/idn.html
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBUX01231
Generic Exploit URL: http://www.milw0rm.com/id.php?id=1224
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBUX01230
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2005:768 RHSA-2005:769 RHSA-2005:791

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