Bug 815044 (CVE-2012-0479) - CVE-2012-0479 Mozilla: Potential site identity spoofing when loading RSS and Atom feeds (MFSA 2012-33)
Summary: CVE-2012-0479 Mozilla: Potential site identity spoofing when loading RSS and ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-0479
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: 812268
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-22 07:29 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 11:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-04-24 21:04:02 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0515 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2012-04-24 23:55:38 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0516 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2012-04-24 23:44:08 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-22 07:29:40 UTC 
Security researcher Jeroen van der Gun reported that if RSS or Atom XML invalid content is loaded over HTTPS, the addressbar updates to display the new location of the loaded resource, including SSL indicators, while the main window still displays the previously loaded content. This allows for phishing attacks where a malicious page can spoof the identify of another seemingly secure site.

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-33.html
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-04-24 18:02:16 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.  Upstream acknowledges Jeroen van der Gun as the original reporter.
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-24 19:46:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0516 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0516.html
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-24 20:02:48 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0515 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0515.html
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