Bug 20462

Summary:	Netscape 4.75 buffer overflow
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Roesen <dr>
Component:	netscape	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.0	CC:	jarno.huuskonen, rgorosito, rvokal
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Description Daniel Roesen 2000-11-07 12:59:22 UTC

From a recent BugTraq advisory
(Message-ID:  <20001106234541.11EB637B65F.org>)

---- BEGIN CITE ----
Versions of netscape prior to 4.76 allow a client-side exploit through
a buffer overflow in html code. A malicious website operator can cause
arbitrary code to be executed by the user running the netscape client.
---- END CITE ----

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-11-07 17:42:08 UTC

I don't see any details of this in the release notes for 4.76. Do
you have a pointer to the original vulnerability report?g

Comment 2 Daniel Roesen 2000-11-07 18:45:38 UTC

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:66.netscape.asc

Comment 3 Daniel Roesen 2000-11-07 18:47:15 UTC

if you mean a report before FreeBSD's advisory: I'm not aware of any.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2000-11-07 20:41:48 UTC

Yeah, that's what I meant; I was surprised that the FreeBSD advisory
came out of the blue with no word from Netscape, or even the original
credited vulnerability discoverer.

Comment 5 Daniel Roesen 2000-11-10 17:06:15 UTC

any news yet?

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2000-11-19 05:56:32 UTC

4.76 errata packages were released.