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Gentoo: GLSA-200509-11 Normal: Mozilla Firefox Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2005
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Gentoo advisory GLSA 202310-25: Firefox and SeaMonkey have vulnerabilities that may lead to privilege escalation, allowing malicious code execution.
Mozilla Suite and Firefox are vulnerable to a buffer overflow that might be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200509-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox: Buffer overflow Date: September 18, 2005 Bugs: #105396 ID: 200509-11

Synopsis ======= Mozilla Suite and Firefox are vulnerable to a buffer overflow that might be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a mail and news reader. Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation browser from the Mozilla project. They both support Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), which are domain names represented by local language characters.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-clie...

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