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Secunia Security Advisory 23066

Secunia Security Advisory 23066
Posted Nov 30, 2006
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been discovered in Safari, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks.

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Secunia Security Advisory 23066

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To improve our services to our customers, we have made a number of
additions to the Secunia Advisories and have started translating the
advisories to German.

The improvements will help our customers to get a better
understanding of how we reached our conclusions, how it was rated,
our thoughts on exploitation, attack vectors, and scenarios.

This includes:
* Reason for rating
* Extended description
* Extended solution
* Exploit code or links to exploit code
* Deep links

Read the full description:
http://corporate.secunia.com/products/48/?r=l

Contact Secunia Sales for more information:
http://corporate.secunia.com/how_to_buy/15/?r=l

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TITLE:
Safari AutoFill Information Disclosure

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23066

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23066/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Safari 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/5289/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Safari, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the AutoFill feature is not
properly checking the URL before automatically filling saved user
credentials into forms. This may be exploited to steal user
credentials via malicious forms in the same domain.

Successful exploitation requires that the "User names and passwords"
option is enabled in the AutoFill preferences.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.0.4. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Disable the "AutoFill" option for user names and passwords in the
preferences.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360493

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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