Vulnerability Details : CVE-2005-2871
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.
Vulnerability category: OverflowExecute codeDenial of service
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-2871
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days: 96.42%
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less: ~ 99 % EPSS Score History EPSS FAQ
CVSS scores for CVE-2005-2871
Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Score Source |
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7.5
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HIGH | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
10.0
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6.4
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NIST |
References for CVE-2005-2871
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A584
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22207
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259
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http://securityreason.com/securityalert/83
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http://securitytracker.com/id?1014877
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1287
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http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html
Exploit
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http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-837
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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-57.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1824
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http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17-advisory.txt
Exploit;Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:174
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14784
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00004.html
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http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-768.html
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http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-303.shtml
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9608
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/573857
US Government Resource
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http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112624614008387&w=2
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-791.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-868
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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-181-1
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-09/0316.html
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http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-769.html
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1691
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http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5RP0B0UGVW.html
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http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-11.xml
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1690
Products affected by CVE-2005-2871
- 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:*:*:*:*:*:*