A new vulnerability was reported in several web browsers, which may be exploited by attackers to conduct phishing/spoofing attacks and display fake domain names. The problem resides in the IDN (International Domain Name) implementation and occurs when handling malformed URLs containing specially crafted characters, which may be exploited to spoof SSL certificates and the URL displayed in the address/status bar [...]
Solution
Firefox 1.0.1 - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/all.html
Opera 8.0b2 - http://www.opera.com/download/?ver=8.0b2
Safari - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301116
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Eric Johanson
ChangeLog
2005-02-07 : Initial release
2005-02-09 : Updated CVE
2005-02-25 : Firefox Patch
2005-02-28 : Opera Patch
2005-03-22 : Safari Patch
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