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CVE-2005-2871 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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

see all 74 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
mozilla firefox	1.0 1.0.1 1.0.2 1.0.3 1.0.4
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.5:beta1:::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Product

Versions

mozilla firefox

1.0

1.0.1

1.0.2

1.0.3

1.0.4

CPE

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.5:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 16, 2026		[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 3, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 11, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 18, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Sep 12, 2005	Initial Analysis	[email protected]