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Secunia Research 28/06/2006
- Opera SSL Certificate "Stealing" Weakness -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Description of Vulnerabilities.......................................3
Solution.............................................................4
Time Table...........................................................5
Credits..............................................................6
References...........................................................7
About Secunia........................................................8
Verification.........................................................9
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1) Affected Software
Opera 8.54
Prior versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Not critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
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3) Description of Vulnerabilities
Secunia Research has discovered a weakness in Opera, which can be
exploited to display the SSL certificate from a trusted site on an
untrusted site.
The weakness is caused due to Opera not resetting the SSL security
bar after displaying a download dialog from a SSL enabled web site.
This allows an untrusted web site to display yellow SSL security bar
from a trusted web site.
NOTE: A more convincing exploit can be done using pop-up windows,
which do not have a visible address bar.
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4) Solution
Upgrade to version 9.0.
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5) Time Table
31/03/2006 - Initial vendor notification.
28/06/2006 - Public disclosure.
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6) Credits
Discovered by Jakob Balle, Secunia Research.
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7) References
No references available.
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9) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-49/advisory/
Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/
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