CVE-2008-3172 Information

Description

Opera allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains that have DNS A records such as co.tv which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user’s HTTP session aka \Cross-Site Cooking.\

Reference

http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/ie-and-2-letter-domain-names.html http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-cookie-security.html http://o.bulport.com/index.php?item=55 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252342 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43951