CVE-2005-2871

N/A Unknown
Published: September 09, 2005 Modified: April 16, 2026
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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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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16764
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/16766
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/16767
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/17042
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/17090
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/17263
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/17284
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014877
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/573857
Source: secalert@redhat.com
US Government Resource
http://www.osvdb.org/19255
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17-advisory.txt
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14784
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-181-1
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112624614008387&w=2
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/16764
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/16766
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/16767
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/17042
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/17090
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/17263
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/17284
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/83
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014877
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-303.shtml
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-837
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-11.xml
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/573857
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
US Government Resource
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-57.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.osvdb.org/19255
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-768.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-769.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5RP0B0UGVW.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17-advisory.txt
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14784
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-181-1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1690
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1691
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22207
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

74 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
51.6%
98th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

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