SUSE-SA:2005:031: opera

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:031 opera. The commercial web browser Opera has been updated to the 8.0 version, fixing all currently known security problems, including: - CVE-2005-0235: IDN cloaking / homograph attack allows easy spoofing of domain names. -...

CVE-2005-0235

CVE-2005-0235 concerns the IDN homograph spoofing vulnerability in Opera 7.54, where punycode-encoded domain names are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that can impersonate domains and enable phishing. The SUSE advisory SUSE-SA-2005:031 notes this issue as part of Opera’s vulnerabili...