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CVE-2015-0832

Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing .

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Summary

Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing . (dot) character, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the HPKP and HSTS protection mechanisms by constructing a URL with this character and leveraging access to an X.509 certificate for a domain with this character.

Timeline

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Affected versions

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    Version range not reported

References 8

bugzilla.mozilla.org

mozilla.org

securityfocus.com

security.gentoo.org

lists.opensuse.org

oracle.com

ubuntu.com