Re: [Full-disclosure] Apple Safari: idn urlbar spoofing

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Larry Seltzer wrote:

> It looks different on my system: http://www.larryseltzer.com/safe2.png
> Safari 3.0.2 on XPSP2

Looks simply like a difference in system fonts used on your machines. The
attack relies on padding the hostname with Unicode characters that, for
the typeface used, are rendered as white spaces.

Whether Safari devs are to blame here exclusively, I'm not sure - IDN
concept is by itself pretty evil, and this can be viewed simply a clever
take on homograph attacks.

/mz

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Security]     [Netfilter]     [PHP]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]

  Powered by Linux