Bug 1496657 (CVE-2017-7825) - CVE-2017-7825 Mozilla: OS X fonts render some Tibetan and Arabic unicode characters as spaces (MFSA 2017-22)
Summary: CVE-2017-7825 Mozilla: OS X fonts render some Tibetan and Arabic unicode char...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-7825
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1494903
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-28 04:28 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-09-28 19:04:00 UTC
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Description Doran Moppert 2017-09-28 04:28:43 UTC 
Several fonts on OS X display some Tibetan and Arabic characters as whitespace. When used in the addressbar as part of an IDN this can be used for domain name spoofing attacks. 

*Note: This attack only affects OS X operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.* 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22/#CVE-2017-7825
Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2017-09-28 05:05:11 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Khalil Zhani
Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2017-09-28 19:02:46 UTC 
Public now via upstream advisories:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/
Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2017-09-28 19:04:00 UTC 
In reply to comment 0:
> *Note: This attack only affects OS X operating systems. Other operating
> systems are unaffected.* 

Linux belongs to the unaffected category.
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