Bug 1416281 (CVE-2017-5383) - CVE-2017-5383 Mozilla: Location bar spoofing with unicode characters (MFSA 2017-02)
Summary: CVE-2017-5383 Mozilla: Location bar spoofing with unicode characters (MFSA 20...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-5383
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1414732
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-01-25 06:45 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-02-02 06:31:38 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0190 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-02-21 17:18:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0238 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2017-02-02 09:38:23 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-01-25 06:45:05 UTC 
URLs containing certain unicode glyphs for alternative hyphens and quotes do not properly trigger punycode display, allowing for domain name spoofing attacks in the location bar.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-02/#CVE-2017-5383

Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Armin Razmjou
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-25 09:33:28 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:0190 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0190.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-02 04:39:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2017:0238 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0238.html
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