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Mozilla Products IDN Spoofing Security Issue
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA14163
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Release Date:
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2005-02-07
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Last Update:
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2006-05-04
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Spoofing
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Camino 0.x
Mozilla 1.7.x
Mozilla Firefox 0.x
Mozilla Firefox 1.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-0233 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Eric Johanson has reported a security issue in Mozilla / Firefox / Camino / Thunderbird, which can be exploited by a malicious web site to spoof the URL displayed in the address bar, SSL certificate, and status bar.
The problem is caused due to an unintended result of the IDN (International Domain Name) implementation, which allows using international characters in domain names.
This can be exploited by registering domain names with certain international characters that resembles other commonly used characters, thereby causing the user to believe they are on a trusted site.
Secunia has constructed a test, which can be used to check if your browser is affected by this issue:
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_idn_spoofing_test/
The issue has been confirmed in Mozilla 1.7.5, Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 1.0. Other versions may also be affected.
Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, using the Network Software Inspector.
Solution:
Mozilla Firefox:
Update to version 1.0.1.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Mozilla:
Update to version 1.7.6.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
Thunderbird:
Update to version 1.0.2.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Camino:
The security issue has been fixed in the CVS repository.
Don't follow links from untrusted sources.
Manually type the URL in the address bar.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Originally described by:
Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Alex Gontmakher
Reported by:
Eric Johanson
Changelog:
2005-02-07: Updated "Solution" section.
2005-02-10: Added CVE reference.
2005-02-14: Added Thunderbird as affected software and updated "Description" section.
2005-02-25: Firefox 1.0.1 released, which shows IDN URLs as punycode. Updated "Solution" section.
2005-03-23: Mozilla 1.7.6 and Thunderbird 1.0.2 released. Updated "Solution" section.
2005-03-25: Added link to vendor advisory.
2006-05-04: Updated affected software.
Original Advisory:
Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-29.html
Shmoo.com:
http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt
Other References:
The Homograph Attack:
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/homograph.html
ICANN paper on IDN Permissible Code Point Problems:
http://www.icann.org/committees/idn/idn-codepoint-paper.htm
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