Bug 147405 - CAN-2005-0237 homograph spoofing
Summary: CAN-2005-0237 homograph spoofing
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kdebase
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Whiteboard: impact=important,public=20050207
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-02-07 21:30 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-03-23 10:20:55 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:325 0 important SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kdelibs security update 2005-03-23 05:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-02-07 21:30:07 UTC 
*** This bug has been split off bug 147397 ***

------- Original comment by Josh Bressers (Security Response Team) on 2005.02.07
16:07 -------

The Shmoo Group has discovered a homograph attack in a number of web browsers:
http://www.shmoo.com/idn/

This issue allows an attacker supply a domain name that looks like a common
name, but is an International Domain Name.  This issue would allow various
attacks to steal information from an unsuspecting vitim.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-02-07 21:31:03 UTC 
Upstream is tracking this issue here:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98788
Comment 2 Than Ngo 2005-03-17 18:47:11 UTC 
it's now fixed in kdelibs-3.3.1-3.6. it's built in dist-4E-errata-candidate tree.
Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2005-03-23 10:20:56 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-325.html
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