full-disclosure - Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12 SSL Spoofing and Domain Guessing vulnerabilities

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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:08:07 -0800
From: Rob Thompson <my.security.lists@...il.com>
To: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio@...ti.fi>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, carl hardwick <hardwick.carl@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12 SSL Spoofing and Domain
 Guessing vulnerabilities

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Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:
| The most recent Firefox 2.0.0.12 version is RC4 still:
| http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.12/releasenotes/
|
| You can't download Firefox 2.0.12 Final yet.

So if that's the case, did the author of this thread report this to the
FF team?

/me doesn't see the point of sending this type of e-mail out to a list.
~ Since this is a Release Candidate - not even released.  Just report it
to the authors and let them fix it for the final.

Thanks Juha-Matti Laurio, for the clarification.

|
| Juha-Matti
|
| carl hardwick <hardwick.carl@...il.com> wrote:
|> Firefox seems to have trouble with defining the proper hostname when
|> requesting a ssl connection. I was able to trick Firefox in thinking
|> the hostname behind the at-sign is legit and the same as the URI that
|> requested an ssl connection, and this without a warning.
|>
|> PoC: https://www.gmail.com%C0%AF%C0%AF%C0%C0%80@...uehost.com
|>
|> You can add as much garbage between .com and the @ sign.
|>
|> So what else can we do?
|>
|> PoC:
|> www.cnn.com%C0%AF%C0%AF%C0%C0%80@...gle
|> www.gmail.com%C0%AF%C0%AF%C0%C0%80@...mail
|>
|> ah heck we don't need that at all:
|>
www.gmail.comxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@...mail
|>
|> works fine also :)
|>
|
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