43463 : Opera Hostname Basic Authentication Status Bar Truncation Spoofing
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Jun 04, 2007

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 (Description Provided by CVE) : Visual truncation vulnerability in Opera 9.21 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a long hostname, which is truncated after 34 characters, as demonstrated by a phishing attack using HTTP Basic Authentication.

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 Location: Remote/Network Access Required
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
OSVDB: Web Related

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