CVE-2010-3312 Information

Description

Epiphany 2.28 and 2.29 when WebKit and LibSoup are used unconditionally displays a closed-lock icon for any URL beginning with the https: substring without any warning to the user which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary https web sites via a crafted X.509 server certificate.

Reference

http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b26ca29d http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=564690 http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=154330 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/17/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/17/12 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/17/13 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/17/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/17/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/20/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/5 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600663