Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 Blacklist Filter input validation

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A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Blacklist Filter. Performing a manipulation results in input validation. This vulnerability was named CVE-2006-6971. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 (Web Browser). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Blacklist Filter. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla Firefox 2.0, possibly only when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to bypass the Phishing Protection mechanism by representing an IP address in (1) dotted-hex, (2) dotted-octal, (3) single decimal integer, (4) single hex integer, or (5) single octal integer format, which is not captured by the blacklist filter.

The weakness was presented 02/07/2007 as Bug 356355 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-6971 since 02/07/2007. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/19/2018).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See VDB-34865 and VDB-34864 for similar entries. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox

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• 2.0.0.1

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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