MowGreen writes "http://secunia.com/advisories/16764/
Secunia Advisory:SA16764
Release Date: 2005-09-09
Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched
Software: Mozilla Firefox 1.x
Description:
Tom Ferris has discovered a vulnerability in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially to compromise a users system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of an URL that contains the 0xAD character in its domain name. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation crashes Firefox and may potentially allow code execution but requires that the user is tricked into visiting a malicious web site or open a specially crafted HTML file.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.0.6, and is reported to affect versions prior to 1.0.6, and version 1.5 Beta 1.
Solution: Dont browse untrusted web sites.
Provided and/or discovered by: Tom Ferris
Original Advisory:
http://security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17-advisory.txt
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Posted on Friday, 09 September 2005 @ 14:22:17 UTC by Paul (1787 reads) [ Trackback ]
