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Arch Linux: Content spoofing (CVE-2017-5383)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

URLs containing certain unicode glyphs for alternative hyphens and quotes do not properly trigger punycode display in Firefox < 51 and Thunderbird < 45.7, allowing for domain name spoofing attacks in the location bar.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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