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Mozilla Products IDN Spoofing Security Issue

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SA14163

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Release Date:

2005-02-07

Last Update:

2006-05-04

Popularity:

146,698 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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Solution:
Mozilla Firefox:
Update to version 1.0.1.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Mozilla:
Update to version 1.7.6.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/

Thunderbird:
Update to version 1.0.2.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Camino:
The security issue has been fixed in the CVS repository.

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:
2005-02-07: Updated "Solution" section.
2005-02-10: Added CVE reference.
2005-02-14: Added Thunderbird as affected software and updated "Description" section.
2005-02-25: Firefox 1.0.1 released, which shows IDN URLs as punycode. Updated "Solution" section.
2005-03-23: Mozilla 1.7.6 and Thunderbird 1.0.2 released. Updated "Solution" section.
2005-03-25: Added link to vendor advisory.
2006-05-04: Updated affected software.

Original Advisory:
Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-29.html

Shmoo.com:
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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