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CERT Advisory CA-2000-08 - Inconsistent Warning Messages in Netscape Navigator. A flaw exists in Netscape Navigator that could allow an attacker to masquerade as a legitimate web site if the attacker can compromise the validity of certain DNS information. Within one Netscape session, if a user clicks on "continue" in response to a "hostname does not match name in certificate" error, then that certificate is incorrectly validated for future use in the Netscape session, regardless of the hostname or IP address of other servers that use the certificate.

CERT Advisory CA-2000-08 - Inconsistent Warning Messages in Netscape Navigator. A flaw exists in Netscape Navigator that could allow an attacker to masquerade as a legitimate web site if the attacker can compromise the validity of certain DNS information. Within one Netscape session, if a user clicks on "continue" in response to a "hostname does not match name in certificate" error, then that certificate is incorrectly validated for future use in the Netscape session, regardless of the hostname or IP address of other servers that use the certificate.