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Multiple Browsers Frame Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA11978
Release Date: 2004-07-01
Last Update: 2004-09-13
Popularity: 165,891 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Camino 0.x
Internet Explorer 5.x for Mac
Konqueror 3.x
Mozilla 0.x
Mozilla 1.0
Mozilla 1.1
Mozilla 1.2
Mozilla 1.3
Mozilla 1.4
Mozilla 1.5
Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla Firefox 0.x
Netscape 6.x
Netscape 7.x
Opera 5.x
Opera 6.x
Opera 7.x
Safari 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-0717
CVE-2004-0718
CVE-2004-0719
CVE-2004-0720
CVE-2004-0721


Description:
A 6 year old vulnerability has been discovered in multiple browsers, allowing malicious people to spoof the content of websites.

The problem is that the browsers don't check if a target frame belongs to a website containing a malicious link, which therefore doesn't prevent one browser window from loading content in a named frame in another window.

Successful exploitation allows a malicious website to load arbitrary content in an arbitrary frame in another browser window owned by e.g. a trusted site.

Secunia has constructed a test, which can be used to check if your browser is affected by this issue:
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_frame_injection_vulnerability_test/

The vulnerability has been confirmed in the following browsers:
* Opera 7.51 for Windows
* Opera 7.50 for Linux
* Mozilla 1.6 for Windows
* Mozilla 1.6 for Linux
* Mozilla Firebird 0.7 for Linux
* Mozilla Firefox 0.8 for Windows
* Netscape 7.1 for Windows
* Internet Explorer for Mac 5.2.3
* Safari 1.2.2
* Konqueror 3.1-15redhat

Other versions may also be affected.

The vulnerability also affects Internet Explorer:
SA11966

Solution:
Do not browse untrusted sites while browsing trusted sites.

The following browsers are not affected:
* Mozilla Firefox 0.9 and later
* Mozilla 1.7
* Opera 7.52
* Netscape 7.2
* Camino 0.8 (build 2004062308)

KDE has issued patches for Konqueror.

Patches for KDE 3.0.5b:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.0.5b-kdelibs-htmlframes.patch
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.0.5b-kdebase-htmlframes.patch

Patches for KDE 3.1.5:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.1.5-kdelibs-htmlframes.patch
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.1.5-kdebase-htmlframes.patch

Patches for KDE 3.2.3:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.2.3-kdelibs-htmlframes.patch
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.2.3-kdebase-htmlframes.patch

Apple has issued a security update, which fixes the vulnerability in Safari.
http://secunia.com/advisories/12491/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported in Mozilla browser by:
Gary McKay

Changelog:
2004-07-02: Updated solution.
2004-07-07: Opera Software issues updated version (7.52), which fixes the vulnerability.
2004-07-27: Added CVE references.
2004-08-12: KDE issues fix for Konqueror.
2004-08-20: Added information about the Camino browser.
2004-09-13: Added information about Apple fix for Safari.

Original Advisory:
KDE:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040811-3.txt

Other References:
SA11966:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11966/


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