Low descenders on some Tibetan characters in several fonts on OS X are clipped when rendered in the addressbar. When used as part of an Internationalized Domain Name (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 < 58.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402368 Issue Tracking Permissions Required
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/ Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2018-06-12T09:57:01

Reserved: 2018-01-03T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-5121

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:13.717

Modified: 2018-06-25T17:24:45.880


Link: CVE-2018-5121

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