Improper Input Validation Affecting mozilla package, versions [,3.0.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
19.99% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378771
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Jun 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jun 2009

CVE-2009-1834  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 3.0.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. Visual truncation vulnerability in netwerk/dns/src/nsIDNService.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to spoof the location bar via an IDN with invalid Unicode characters that are displayed as whitespace, as demonstrated by the \u115A through \u115E characters.

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