SecurityTeam.usLatest HeadlinesFirefox URL Domain Name Buffer Overflow- September 9, 2005 The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of an URL that contains the 0xAD character in its domain name. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Successful exploitation crashes Firefox and may potentially allow code execution but requires that the user is tricked into visiting a malicious web site or open a specially crafted HTML file.The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.0.6, and is reported to affect versions prior to 1.0.6, and version 1.5...http://www.securityteam.us/article.php/20050910160508353 |