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Bug 167944

Summary:	CAN-2005-2871 Firefox buffer overflow affects thunderbird
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	thunderbird	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=moderate,reported=20050909,source=fulldisclosure
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-791	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-09-09 18:51:28 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

IDN is disabled by default in Thunderbird, therefore this issue is being
assigned a severity of "moderate"

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-06 19:44:25 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-2005-791.html