Visual truncation vulnerability in Opera 9.21 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a long hostname, which is truncated after 34 characters, as demonstrated by a phishing attack using HTTP Basic Authentication.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opera_browser | Opera | 9.21 (including) | 9.21 (including) |
| Opera | Ubuntu | dapper | * |
| Opera | Ubuntu | edgy | * |
| Opera | Ubuntu | feisty | * |
| Opera | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
References
- http://osvdb.org/43463
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26545
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-17.xml
- http://testing.bitsploit.de/test.html
- http://www.0x000000.com/?i=334
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24352
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34983
- http://osvdb.org/43463
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26545
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-17.xml
- http://testing.bitsploit.de/test.html
- http://www.0x000000.com/?i=334
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24352
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34983