Bug 486704 (CVE-2009-0652) - CVE-2009-0652 firefox: does not properly prevent the literal rendering of homoglyph characters in IDN domain names (spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks)
Summary: CVE-2009-0652 firefox: does not properly prevent the literal rendering of hom...
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Status: VERIFIED
Alias: CVE-2009-0652
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Nobody
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URL: https://www.blackhat.com/presentation...
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-02-21 10:16 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2023-07-07 08:29 UTC (History)
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0436 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2009-04-22 01:42:27 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0437 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: seamonkey security update 2009-04-21 23:59:24 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-02-21 10:16:01 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-0652 to
the following vulnerability:

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 does not properly prevent the literal rendering
of homoglyph characters in IDN domain names, which allows remote
attackers to spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks, as demonstrated
by homoglyphs of the / (slash) and ? (question mark) characters in a
subdomain of a .cn domain name, a different vulnerability than
CVE-2005-0233.

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0652
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-09/bh-dc-09-speakers.html#Marlinspike
https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-09/Marlinspike/BlackHat-DC-09-Marlinspike-Defeating-SSL.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33837
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2009-04-21 23:59:49 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1

Via RHSA-2009:0437 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0437.html
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2009-04-22 01:43:10 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:0436 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0436.html
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-04-22 20:25:00 UTC 
xulrunner-1.9.0.9-1.fc9, firefox-3.0.9-1.fc9, epiphany-extensions-2.22.1-10.fc9, epiphany-2.22.2-10.fc9, blam-1.8.5-8.fc9.1, chmsee-1.0.1-11.fc9, devhelp-0.19.1-11.fc9, evolution-rss-0.1.0-10.fc9, galeon-2.0.7-9.fc9, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-26.fc9, gnome-web-photo-0.3-20.fc9, google-gadgets-0.10.5-5.fc9, gtkmozembedmm-1.4.2.cvs20060817-28.fc9, kazehakase-0.5.6-4.fc9.1, Miro-2.0.3-3.fc9, mozvoikko-0.9.5-9.fc9, mugshot-1.2.2-8.fc9, ruby-gnome2-0.17.0-8.fc9, totem-2.23.2-14.fc9, yelp-2.22.1-11.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-04-24 19:50:22 UTC 
xulrunner-1.9.0.9-1.fc10, firefox-3.0.9-1.fc10, epiphany-extensions-2.24.0-7.fc10, epiphany-2.24.3-5.fc10, blam-1.8.5-9.fc10, devhelp-0.22-7.fc10, galeon-2.0.7-9.fc10, gecko-sharp2-0.13-7.fc10, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-29.fc10, gnome-web-photo-0.3-17.fc10, google-gadgets-0.10.5-5.fc10, kazehakase-0.5.6-4.fc10.1, Miro-2.0.3-3.fc10, mozvoikko-0.9.5-9.fc10, mugshot-1.2.2-8.fc10, pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-8.fc10, perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-5.fc10.2, ruby-gnome2-0.18.1-5.fc10.1, yelp-2.24.0-8.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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