full-disclosure - Re: Firefox focus stealing vulnerability (possibly other browsers)

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:35:46 +0100
From: Ben Bucksch <news@...ksch.org>
To: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...ne.ids.pl>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk,
	"pdp \(architect\)" <pdp.gnucitizen@...glemail.com>
Subject: Re: Firefox focus stealing vulnerability
 (possibly other browsers)

Michal Zalewski wrote:
> And it's not really that much of an issue: disallow script-assisted
> focusing on file input fields, or a) prevent event target from being
> changed in onKeyDown (this is what MSIE does) + b) prevent scripts from
> reading file input field value (really no reason for them to).
>   

Good ideas.

I really hate to duplicate or relay discussion, but bz says in the bug 
that this has already been fixed on the trunk. You can't type *at all* 
in file input fields there, only use the File Open dialog, as I 
understood him.

I hope this fixes it once and for all. (Yes, this is a teaser. ;-) )

Ben

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