Overview
A vulnerability in the way Mozilla and its derived programs handle certain malformed URLs could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.
Description
A vulnerability exists in the way that some versions of the Mozilla and Firefox web browsers, and Thunderbird email client handle long URLs containing non-ASCII characters. The vulnerability results from a buffer overflow error in heap memory that occurs during UTF8 conversion of the hostname portion of the URL. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker by supplying a specially crafted URL in a web page or email message. |
Impact
A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running an affected program. |
Solution
Upgrade to a fixed version of the affected software The Mozilla Project has released new versions of the affected software that include patches for this vulnerability. Please see the Systems Affected section of this document for more information. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | 0 | AV:--/AC:--/Au:--/C:--/I:--/A:-- |
| Temporal | 0 | E:ND/RL:ND/RC:ND |
| Environmental | 0 | CDP:ND/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND |
References
Acknowledgements
Information about this issue was originally published by the Mozilla Project. The Mozilla Project, in turn, credits Gaël Delalleau and Mats Palmgren with independent discoveries of this issue.
This document was written by Chad R Dougherty.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | None |
| Severity Metric: | 28.59 |
| Date Public: | 2004-09-14 |
| Date First Published: | 2004-09-17 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2004-09-17 18:08 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 9 |