full-disclosure - Re: Firefox/MSIE focus stealing vulnerability

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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:31:56 +0100 (CET)
From: "Ruud H.G. van Tol" <rvtol@...lution.nl>
To: "Michal Zalewski" <lcamtuf@...ne.ids.pl>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Firefox/MSIE focus stealing vulnerability -
	clarification

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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