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Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox User Interface Spoofing Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA12188

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Release Date:

2004-07-30

Last Update:

2004-12-20

Popularity:

67,785 views

Critical:

Moderately critical

Impact:

Spoofing

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Partial Fix

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

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Solution:
The vulnerability has been partly fixed in Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR so that the status bar always is visible. A final solution will be added in an upcoming version.

Do not follow links from untrusted sites.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported in Mozilla Firefox by:
Jeff Smith (also created a PoC)

Reported in Mozilla by:
James Ross

Changelog:
2004-07-30: Added an additional Mozilla Bug reference.
2004-08-02: Updated credits section.
2004-08-03: Added CVE reference.
2004-09-17: Updated "Solution" section. Added Bugzilla reference.
2004-12-20: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.

Original Advisory:
Original Advisory and Proof of Concept:
http://www.nd.edu/~jsmith30/xul/test/spoof.html

Other References:
XUL Documentation:
http://www.xulplanet.com/

Mozilla Bug reference:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22183

Mozilla Bug reference:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244965

Mozilla Bug reference:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252198

US-CERT VU#262350:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/262350

Change Page:
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