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mozilla-https-everywhere: no SSL switch for some URLs

Package(s):mozilla-https-everywhere CVE #(s):
Created:May 3, 2012 Updated:May 9, 2012
Description:

From the Tor bug entry:

If you go to a URL such as http://www.google.com./ HTTPS-Everywhere will *not* switch to HTTPS. This is a legal DNS value, technically but not practically distinct from http://www.google.com/ and as such, it should be handled similarly.

[...] (it would allow an active attacker to perform Firesheep-style cookie stealing accounts against sites that HTTPS Everywhere protects with domain-wide redirects, if the ruleset does not also have a <securecookie> directive)

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-7175 2012-05-03
Fedora FEDORA-2012-7136 2012-05-03

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