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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7825: Vulnerability in Firefox, Thunderbird

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7825: Vulnerability in Firefox, Thunderbird

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/30/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2017
Modified
08/08/2018

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-52-4-0-0-175-3-26-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-52-4-0-0-175-3-26-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-52-4-0-0-175-3-25-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-plugin-firefox-java-52-4-0-0-175-3-25-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-data-firefox-bookmarks-52-4-0-0-175-3-25-0-3-0

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