CVE catalog
CVE-2005-2871
mozilla-firefox - buffer overflow
- Severity
- Unknown
- Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 21.11% · Oct 25, 2026
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. security flaw
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | mozilla-thunderbird | 3.1 | 1.0.2-2 | vulnerable |
| Debian | mozilla-thunderbird | 3.1 | 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.6 | vulnerable |
| Debian | mozilla-thunderbird | 3.1 | 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.7 | fixed |
| Debian | mozilla-firefox | 3.1 | 1.0.4-2 | vulnerable |
| Debian | mozilla-firefox | 3.1 | 1.0.4-2sarge1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | mozilla-firefox | 3.1 | 1.0.4-2sarge2 | vulnerable |
| Debian | mozilla-firefox | 3.1 | 1.0.4-2sarge3 | vulnerable |
| Debian | mozilla-firefox | 3.1 | 1.0.4-2sarge4 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | mozilla-thunderbird | deb | 3.1 | 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.7 | Not reported | DSA-868-1 | Not reported |
| Debian | mozilla-firefox | deb | 3.1 | 1.0.4-2sarge4 | Not reported | DSA-837-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
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