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Status published
Medium
CVE-2009-1834
Visual truncation vulnerability in netwerk/dns/src/nsIDNService.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35388
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10436
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35326
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-25.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00657.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35431
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35331
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35468
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35439
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00574.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35415
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468
- http://osvdb.org/55162
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479413
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503573
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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9_rc, 0.10, 0.10.1, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3, 1.5.0.4, 1.5.0.5, 1.5.0.6, 1.5.0.7, 1.5.0.8, 1.5.0.9, 1.5.0.10, 1.5.0.11, 1.5.0.12, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5, 1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.8, 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3, 2.0.0.4, 2.0.0.5, 2.0.0.6, 2.0.0.7, 2.0.0.8, 2.0.0.9, 2.0.0.10, 2.0.0.11, 2.0.0.12, 2.0.0.13, 2.0.0.14, 2.0.0.15, 2.0.0.16, 2.0.0.17, 2.0.0.18, 2.0.0.19, 2.0.0.20, 2.0.0.21, 2.0_.1, 2.0_.4, 2.0_.5, 2.0_.6, 2.0_.7, 2.0_.9, 2.0_.10, 2.0_8, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 1.0.9, 1.0.99, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.3, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.1.7, 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.1.10, 1.1.11, 1.1.12, 1.1.13, 1.1.15
Timeline
Official Publish:
June 12th, 2009
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.