Several fonts on OS X display some Tibetan and Arabic characters as whitespace. When used in the addressbar as part of an IDN this can be used for domain name spoofing attacks. Note: This attack only affects OS X operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56, Firefox ESR < 52.4, and Thunderbird < 52.4.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101059 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039465 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1390980 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393624 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00000.html | Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201803-14 | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/ | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22/ | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-23/ | Vendor Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00
Updated: 2018-06-12T09:57:01
Reserved: 2017-04-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-7825
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:11.107
Modified: 2018-08-06T16:32:16.600
Link: CVE-2017-7825
JSON object: View
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CWE