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.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
8 August 2009
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
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.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Firefox and any applications that use xulrunner, such as Epiphany, to effect the necessary changes.
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