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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0233

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2005-0233

Description:
The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/19236

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/oval/definitions/data/oval100029.html

MISC
  http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt
  http://www.shmoo.com/idn

GENTOO
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml

FULLDISC
  http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html

CONFIRM
  http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-29.html

BUGTRAQ
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110782704923280&w=2

BID
  12461


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