Bug 1537825 – CVE-2018-5117 Mozilla: URL spoofing with right-to-left text aligned left-to-right (MFSA 2018-03)

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Bug 1537825 - (CVE-2018-5117) CVE-2018-5117 Mozilla: URL spoofing with right-to-left text aligned left-to-right (MFSA 2018-03)

Summary:	CVE-2018-5117 Mozilla: URL spoofing with right-to-left text aligned left-to-r...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2018-5117

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Blocks:	1534345
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Reported:	2018-01-23 18:19 EST by Doran Moppert
Modified:	2018-02-01 19:48 EST (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:0122	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2018-01-24 10:05:22 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:0262	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2018-02-01 11:28:48 EST

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Description Doran Moppert 2018-01-23 18:19:25 EST

If right-to-left text is used in the addressbar with left-to-right alignment, it is possible in some circumstances to scroll this text to spoof the displayed URL. This issue could result in the wrong URL being displayed as a location, which can mislead users to believe they are on a different site than the one loaded.  



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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-03/#CVE-2018-5117

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-01-23 18:19:29 EST

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Xisigr

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-24 05:07:10 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:0122 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0122

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-01 06:27:04 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:0262 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0262

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