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Opera IDN Spoofing Security Issue Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA14154  
Release Date: 2005-02-07
Last Update: 2005-03-02

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

Software:Opera 7.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-0235 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Eric Johanson has reported a security issue in Opera, 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 Opera versions 7.54u1 and 7.54u2. 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:
The security issue has been addressed in the 8.0 beta2 preview release.

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:
2005-02-10: Added CVE reference.
2005-03-02: Added information about the issue being fixed in the latest preview release.

Original Advisory:
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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