National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-2871

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#573857

Name: VU#573857

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/573857

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2005-1824

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2005-1691

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1691

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2005-1690

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1690

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html

Hyperlink:http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17-advisory.txt

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17-advisory.txt

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9608

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9608

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20050909 Mozilla Firefox "Host:" Buffer Overflow

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=112624614008387&w=2

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259

External Source: XF

Name: mozilla-url-bo(22207)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/22207

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-181-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-181-1

External Source: BID

Name: 14784

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14784

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5RP0B0UGVW.html

Hyperlink:http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5RP0B0UGVW.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2005:791

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2005:769

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-769.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2005:768

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-768.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FLSA-2006:168375

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00004.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 19255

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/19255

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-57.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-57.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2005:174

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200509-11

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-11.xml

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-868

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-866

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-837

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-837

External Source: CIAC

Name: P-303

Hyperlink:http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-303.shtml

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1014877

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1014877

External Source: SREASON

Name: 83

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/83

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 17284

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17284

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 17263

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17263

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 17090

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17090

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 17042

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17042

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 16767

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/16767

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 16766

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/16766

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 16764

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/16764

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20050911 FireFox "Host:" Buffer Overflow is not just exploitable on FireFox

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0316.html

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:584

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:584

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:584

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1287

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1287

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1287

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1287

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1287

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:584

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:584

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9608

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9608