full-disclosure - Mozilla Firefox "Host:" Buffer Overflow Exploit

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Date: Sat Sep 10 18:38:03 2005
From: venglin at freebsd.lublin.pl (Przemyslaw Frasunek)
Subject: Mozilla Firefox "Host:" Buffer Overflow Exploit

Berend-Jan Wever napisa?(a):
> The security vulnerability in Mozilla FireFox reported by Tom Ferris is
> exploitable on Windows.

It's also easly exploitable on Linux -- no problems with jumping to arbitrary
address:

(gdb) x/i $eip
0x867926c <_ZN16nsTypedSelection5ClearEP14nsIPresContext+2236>:
    call   *0x4(%eax)
(gdb) info reg eax
eax            0x61616161       1633771873

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