Bug 167930

Summary: CAN-2005-2871 Firefox buffer overflow
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 4.0Keywords: Security
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Whiteboard: impact=critical,reported=20050909,source=fulldisclosure
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-768 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-09-09 17:25:37 UTC 
A specially crafted hostname which contains lots of dashes can trigger a buffer
overflow.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=112624614008387&w=2
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307259
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-09-09 18:59:50 UTC 
Created attachment 118660 [details]
Demo exploit

This may have to saved to the local drive to work properly.
Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-09-09 23:27:44 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-768.html