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CVE-2005-2871 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0316.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112624614008387&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/16764 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/16766 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/16767 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/17042 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/17090 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/17263 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/17284 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/83 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014877 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-303.shtml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-837 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-11.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/573857 CVE, Inc., Red Hat US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-57.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.osvdb.org/19255 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-768.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-769.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5RP0B0UGVW.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17-advisory.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14784 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-181-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1690 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1691 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22207 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1287 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A584 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9608 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-2871
NVD Published Date:
09/09/2005
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.