TITLE:
Netscape Java Tab Spoofing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12392

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http://secunia.com/advisories/12392/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Spoofing

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Apple Macintosh OS X
http://secunia.com/product/96/

SOFTWARE:
Netscape 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/85/

DESCRIPTION:
J. Courcoul has discovered a vulnerability in Netscape, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks.

The problem is caused due to errors in the displaying of Java applets
in a window when multiple tabs are used. This can be exploited to
spoof the content of a HTML document from another HTML document being
in a different tab.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in Netscape 7.2 on Mac OS X
10.3.5.

SOLUTION:
Open untrusted sites in separate windows.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
J. Courcoul

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