SUSE CVE-2005-2871

Buffer overflow in the International Domain Name IDN support in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 and earlier, and Netscape 8.0.3.3 and 7.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with all "soft" hyphens character 0xAD, which is not...

Spammers Using SHY Character to Hide Malicious URLs

Spammers have jumped on the little-used soft hyphen or SHY character to fool URL filtering devices. According to researchers at Symantec Corp., spammers are larding up URLs for sites they promote with the soft hyphen character, which many browsers ignore. Spammers aren’t shy about jumping humans...

security flaw

Buffer overflow in the International Domain Name IDN support in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 and earlier, and Netscape 8.0.3.3 and 7.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with all "soft" hyphens character 0xAD, which is not...