CVE-2009-0652 Information

Description

The Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) blacklist in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 and other versions before 3.0.9; Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21; and SeaMonkey before 1.1.15 does not include box-drawing characters which allows remote attackers to spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks as demonstrated by homoglyphs of the / (slash) and ? (question mark) characters in a subdomain of a .cn domain name a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0233. NOTE: some third parties claim that 3.0.6 is not affected but much older versions perhaps are affected.

Reference

http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2009-February/005556.html http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2009-February/005563.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0437.html http://secunia.com/advisories/34096 http://secunia.com/advisories/34843 http://secunia.com/advisories/34844 http://secunia.com/advisories/34894 http://secunia.com/advisories/35042 http://secunia.com/advisories/35065 http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-09/bh-dc-09-speakers.htmlMarlinspike http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1797 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:111 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-15.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0436.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33837 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1125 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48974 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11396 https://usn.ubuntu.com/764-1/ https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-09/Marlinspike/BlackHat-DC-09-Marlinspike-Defeating-SSL.pdf https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00683.html