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Bug#226214: mozilla-browser: Fw: %00 in a URL causes incorrect display of hovered link in status bar



Package: mozilla-browser
Version: 2:1.5-3
Severity: minor
Tags: security

Please refer to [0]upstream Bug#228176.

The vulnerability is [1]originally found in Internet Explorer,
but Mozilla turned out to be also vulnerable in that its status
bar is spoofed (location bar and properties panel are safe).

[0] http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228176
    I'll second the comment #10 by David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>:
    > That is somewhat
    > serious when Javascript is turned off or when the ability of sites to change the
    > status bar is disabled, since in those cases the status bar ought to be able to
    > be trusted.

[1] http://www.secunia.com/internet_explorer_address_bar_spoofing_test/

P.S.  Please cc me on replies since I'm not on debian-security

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INOUE Hiroyuki
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-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux vmthirty 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Tue Dec 2 10:56:03 UTC 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP

Versions of packages mozilla-browser depends on:
ii  debconf                1.2.35            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.4.1-1           The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.3.2.ds1-10      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                1:3.3.2-4         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.2.3-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.2.4-2           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4               2:1.5-3           Netscape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.2.5-2.1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstdc++5             1:3.3.2-4         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  psmisc                 20.2-2.1          Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  xlibs                  4.1.0-16woody1    X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.1.4-1.0woody0 compression library - runtime

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