A weakness has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which could be exploited by malicious websites to conduct spoofing or phishing attacks. This issue is due to an error when handling certain "onunload" events, which could be exploited by attackers to spoof the displayed address bar by tricking a user into entering a trusted URL manually in the address bar while visiting a malicious web page.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Michal Zalewski and Jakob Balle (Secunia Research)
ChangeLog
2007-02-23 : Initial release
2007-10-09 : Updated Solution
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