Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-7838  

Punycode format text in Firefox before 57.0 will be displayed for entire qualified international domain names in some instances when a sub-domain triggers the punycode display instead of the primary domain being displayed in native script and the sub-domain only displaying as punycode. This could be used for limited spoofing attacks due to user confusion.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Content spoofing

Description

Punycode format text in Firefox before 57.0 will be displayed for entire qualified international domain names in some instances when a sub-domain triggers the punycode display instead of the primary domain being displayed in native script and the sub-domain only displaying as punycode. This could be used for limited spoofing attacks due to user confusion.

AVG-494 firefox 56.0.2-1 57.0-1 Critical Fixed

15 Nov 2017 ASA-201711-23 AVG-494 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/#CVE-2017-7838
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399540