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Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox "onunload" SSL Certificate Spoofing Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA12160  
Release Date: 2004-07-26
Last Update: 2004-08-05

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Mozilla 0.x
Mozilla 1.0
Mozilla 1.1
Mozilla 1.2
Mozilla 1.3
Mozilla 1.4
Mozilla 1.5
Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla 1.7.x
Mozilla Firefox 0.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.x

CVE reference:CVE-2004-0763 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Emmanouel Kellinis has reported a vulnerability in Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox, allowing malicious sites to abuse SSL certificates of other sites.

It is possible to make the browser load a valid certificate from a trusted website by using a specially crafted "onunload" event. The problem is that Mozilla loads the certificate from a trusted website and shows the "secure padlock" while actually displaying the content of the malicious website.

The URL shown in the address bar correctly reads that of the malicious website.

This has been confirmed using Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2 and Mozilla 1.7.1 on Windows and Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1 on Linux. Other versions may also be affected.

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Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in the following versions:
* Mozilla 1.7.2
* Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3
* Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3

Provided and/or discovered by:
Emmanouel Kellinis

Changelog:
2004-08-03: Added CVE reference.
2004-08-05: Updated "Solution" section. Added Mozilla Bug reference.

Original Advisory:
Emmanouel Kellinis:
http://www.cipher.org.uk/index.php?p=...g_Mozilla_FireFox_25-07-2004.advisory

Mozilla Bug Tracking System:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253121



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