[Full-disclosure] Firefox + popup blocker + XMLHttpRequest + srand() = oops

[James Matthews]

Thats what i was looking for not if you were going to patch it! If they
were!

On 2/5/07, Ben Bucksch <news at bucksch.org> wrote:
>
> No, we never patch bugs. Where would this lead us? Only commies taking
> over!
>
> Tracked in bug 369390.
>
> James Matthews wrote:
> > Do you think it will be patched??
> >
> > On 2/5/07, *Michal Zalewski* <lcamtuf at dione.ids.pl
> > <mailto:lcamtuf at dione.ids.pl>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, pdp (architect) wrote:
> >
> >     > You may as well use a QuickTime .mov/.qtl or a PDF document to
> >     open a
> >     > file:// link . I think it is easier.
> >
> >     Sure. You can probably have a file:// link in Open Office / MS
> Office
> >     documents as well; but these all rely on external components, and
> >     as such,
> >     attacks could be shrugged off as a weakness in these apps (and
> there's
> >     some truth to this).
> >
> >     Browser authors know better, and they disallow file:// URLs from the
> >     Internet ever since Javascript became so powerful; this case
> >     managed to
> >     slip through, so I thought it's a neat example, in conjunction with
> >     deterministic temporary files.
> >
> >     /mz
> >
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