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Opera SSL Certificate "Stealing" Weakness
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA19480
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Release Date:
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2006-06-28
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Popularity:
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11,648 views
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Critical:
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Not 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: | Opera 8.x
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Description:
Secunia Research has discovered a weakness in Opera, which can be exploited to display the SSL certificate from a trusted site on an untrusted site.
The weakness is caused due to Opera not resetting the SSL security bar after displaying a download dialog from a SSL enabled web site. This allows an untrusted web site to display yellow SSL security bar from a trusted web site.
NOTE: A more convincing exploit can be done using pop-up windows, which do not have a visible address bar.
The weakness has been confirmed in Opera 8.54. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Upgrade to version 9.0.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Jakob Balle, Secunia Research.
Original Advisory:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-49/
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