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

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On 2/12/07, Ruud H.G. van Tol <rvtol at isolution.nl> wrote:
> 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
>
> Without JavaScript on, this doesn't work. See http://noscript.net/

Without a browser too, this doesn't work. See http://netcat.sourceforge.net/

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