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CVE-2007-3143

Published: 11 June 2007

Visual truncation vulnerability in Konqueror 3.5.5 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a long hostname, which is truncated after a certain number of characters, as demonstrated by a phishing attack using HTTP Basic Authentication.

Notes

AuthorNote
jdstrand
CVE references konqueror 3.5.5, but securityfocus references
opera.  securityfocus says that other browsers may be affected, and
there is test exploit code.  Need to verify on konqueror.
kees
this may already be solved from CVE-2007-3820, CVE-2007-4224,
and CVE-2007-4225.

Priority

Low

Status

Package Release Status
kdebase
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper Not vulnerable
(solved in other CVEs)
edgy Not vulnerable
(solved in other CVEs)
feisty Not vulnerable
(solved in other CVEs)
gutsy Not vulnerable
(solved in other CVEs)
upstream Not vulnerable
(solved in other CVEs)
opera
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper
Released (9.23-20070809.6dapper1)
edgy
Released (9.23-20070809.6edgy1)
feisty
Released (9.23-20070809.6feisty1)
gutsy
Released (9.25-20071214.6gutsy1)
upstream
Released (9.22)