815044 – (CVE-2012-0479) CVE-2012-0479 Mozilla: Potential site identity spoofing when loading RSS and Atom feeds (MFSA 2012-33)

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
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	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)
CC List:	2 users (show)
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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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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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