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Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian discovered that Firefox did not properly display
invalid URLs. If a user were tricked into accessing a malicious website, an
attacker could exploit this to spoof the location bar, such as in a
phishing attack. Furthermore, if the malicious website had a valid SSL
certificate, Firefox would display the spoofed page as trusted.
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian discovered that Firefox did not properly display
invalid URLs. If a user were tricked into accessing a malicious website, an
attacker could exploit this to spoof the location bar, such as in a
phishing attack. Furthermore, if the malicious website had a valid SSL
certificate, Firefox would display the spoofed page as trusted.
Update instructions
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Firefox and any applications that use xulrunner, such as Epiphany, to effect the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.04 jaunty | firefox-3.0 – 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 | ||
| abrowser – 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 | |||
| xulrunner-1.9 – 1.9.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 | |||
| 8.10 intrepid | firefox-3.0 – 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 | ||
| abrowser – 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 | |||
| xulrunner-1.9 – 1.9.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 | |||
| 8.04 hardy | firefox-3.0 – 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 | ||
| xulrunner-1.9 – 1.9.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 | |||
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