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CVE-2005-2871

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2005-09-09 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla Firefox

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References