CVE-2005-0234 Information

Description

The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Safari 1.2.5 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets which facilitates phishing attacks.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110782704923280&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 http://www.shmoo.com/idn http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236