The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-0234 The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-149-3 Ubuntu 4.10 update for Firefox vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:05:25.422Z

Reserved: 2005-02-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-0233

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-02-08T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-0233

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2005-02-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-0233 - Bugzilla

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