CVE-2005-0234 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0234
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Description: The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Safari 1.2.5 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 MISC http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt http://www.shmoo.com/idn FULLDISC http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html BUGTRAQ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110782704923280&w=2 BID 12461 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html

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