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Mozilla Products IDN Spoofing Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA14163
Release Date: 2005-02-07
Last Update: 2006-05-04
Popularity: 147,588 views

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

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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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.

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