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Apple Safari security update for CVE-2012-3693

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Apple Safari security update for CVE-2012-3693

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/25/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/04/2012
Modified
09/02/2015

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 6.0 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names in URLs, and possibly conduct phishing attacks, by leveraging the availability of IDN support and Unicode fonts to construct unspecified homoglyphs.

Solution(s)

  • apple-safari-upgrade-6
  • apple-safari-windows-uninstall

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