[Full-disclosure] Firefox/MSIE focus stealing vulnerability - clarification

Ruud H.G. van Tol rvtol at isolution.nl
Mon Feb 12 22:31:56 GMT 2007


Michal Zalewski wrote:

>   2) The Firefox attack vector is related to the Charles' CVE-2006-2894,
>      which in turn was a rediscovery of a problem known to Mozilla since
>      2000 (!); attempts to fix it in official releases failed because the
>      problem was repeatedly marked as a duplicate of a too narrowly
>      defined issue with control hiding. A broader redesign probably
>      eliminated the issue in development branches, but it still affects
>      Firefox 1.5 and 2.0.
>
>      This can be considered an independent rediscovery and a more
>      practical demonstration of a previously reported vulnerability.
>      The exploit is here: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/focusbug/index.html

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-- 
Affijn, Ruud





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