Bug 167934

Summary:	CAN-2005-2871 Mozilla buffer overflow
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	mozilla	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=critical,reported=20050909,source=fulldisclosure
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-769	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-09-09 17:31:34 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 17:32:35 UTC

This issue also affects RHEL2.1 and RHEL3

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-09-10 01:31:31 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-2005-769.html