CVE-2009-1834

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2009-06-11
Bugzilla:
503573: CVE-2009-1834 Firefox URL spoofing with invalid unicode characters

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2009-1834 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2009:1095 2009-06-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (firefox) RHSA-2009:1095 2009-06-11

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