[Full-disclosure] Firefox: serious cookie stealing / same-domain bypass vulnerability

[Stan Bubrouski]

On 2/15/07, Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf at dione.ids.pl> wrote:
> Actually, there are several odd problems related to location updates and
> location.hostname specifically, including one scenario that apparently
> makes the script run with document.location in about: namespace.
>
> I did not research them any further, so I can't say if they're
> exploitable - but you can see a demo here, feel free to poke around:
>
>   http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/fftests.html
>

I tried these and all worked as advertised except the last one which
shot the browser to 100% CPU but was recoverable when I closed the tab
after a few seconds.

-sb


> Cheers,
> /mz
> http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/
>
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