CVE-2017-5383

NameCVE-2017-5383
DescriptionURLs containing certain unicode glyphs for alternative hyphens and quotes do not properly trigger punycode display, allowing for domain name spoofing attacks in the location bar. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.7, Firefox ESR < 45.7, and Firefox < 51.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-800-1, DLA-896-1, DSA-3771-1, DSA-3832-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid131.0-1fixed
firefox-esr (PTS)bullseye115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)115.15.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm115.14.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie115.15.0esr-1fixed
sid128.3.0esr-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)51.0-1
firefox-esrsourcewheezy45.7.0esr-1~deb7u1DLA-800-1
firefox-esrsourcejessie45.7.0esr-1~deb8u1DSA-3771-1
firefox-esrsource(unstable)45.7.0esr-1
icedovesourcewheezy1:45.8.0-3~deb7u1DLA-896-1
icedovesourcejessie1:45.8.0-3~deb8u1DSA-3832-1
icedovesource(unstable)1:45.7.1-1

Notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/#CVE-2017-5383
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-02/#CVE-2017-5383
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-03/#CVE-2017-5383

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