CVE-2006-5544 Information

Description

Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a malicious URL containing non-breaking spaces (A0) which causes the address bar to omit some characters from the URL.

Reference

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/ie-address-bar-issue.aspx http://secunia.com/advisories/22542 http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_7_popup_address_bar_spoofing_test/ http://securitytracker.com/id?1017122 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/347188 http://www.osvdb.org/30022 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449917/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20728 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29827