• News
• Infocus
• Foundations
• Microsoft
• Unix
• IDS
• Incidents
• Virus
• Pen-Test
• Firewalls
• Columnists
• Mailing Lists
• Newsletters
• Bugtraq
• Focus on IDS
• Focus on Linux
• Focus on Microsoft
• Forensics
• Pen-test
• Security Basics
• Vuln Dev
• Vulnerabilities
• Jobs
• Job Opportunities
• Resumes
• Job Seekers
• Employers
• Tools
• RSS
• News
• Vulns
• Security Research

• info
• discussion
• exploit
• solution
• references

Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox Browsers Domain Name Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox are reported prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability when handling a malformed URI.

A successful attack may result in a crash of the application or the execution of arbitrary code.

Firefox 1.0.6 and 1.5 Beta 1 are vulnerable to this issue. Mozilla 1.7.11 and Netscape 8.0.3.3 and 7.2 are affected as well.