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.
Published: 2005-09-09
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 51.6% High
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-181-1 Mozilla products vulnerability
References
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0316.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112624614008387&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/16764 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/16766 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/16767 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17042 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17090 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17263 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17284 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/83 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014877 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-303.shtml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-837 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-11.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/573857 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-57.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.osvdb.org/19255 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-768.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-769.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5RP0B0UGVW.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17-advisory.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14784 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-181-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1690 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1691 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22207 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2871 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1287 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A584 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9608 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2871 cve-icon
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Mozilla Firefox
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:53:29.438Z

Reserved: 2005-09-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-2871

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-09-09T18:03:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-2871

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-2871 - Bugzilla

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