Re: IE https certificate attack

["Diego M. Vadell" <dvadell () uyr com ar>]

Hi,
        Just FYI, I did get a warning as soon as I entered http://suspekt.org/ with Konqueror from KDE3beta1.

"The Ip address of the host supekt.org does not match the one the certificate was issued to."

        Diego.




On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 16:14:39 +0100
"Przemyslaw Frasunek" <venglin () freebsd lublin pl> wrote:

> On Saturday 22 December 2001 15:37, security () e-matters de wrote:
> >    A proof of concept webpage was put up at http://suspekt.org. Clicking
> >    onto the "To the secure page..." link will send your browser to
> >    https://suspekt.org without IE warning you that the certificate was not
> >    issued onto that server.
>
> Looks like Konqueror 2.2.1 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 + OpenSSL 0.9.6b) is also 
> vulnerable. I've got no warning when entering on this page. I've tested it 
> also with lynx 2.8.4rel.1 (compiled with OpenSSL 0.9.6a on FreeBSD) with the 
> same result. 
>
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