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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0235
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CVE-2005-0235

Description:
The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Opera 7.54 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_31_opera.html

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


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