full-disclosure - Re: Firefox + popup blocker + XMLHttpRequest + srand() = oops

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Message-ID: <45C7E7D4.5080603@bucksch.org>
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:28:36 +0100
From: Ben Bucksch <news@...ksch.org>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Firefox + popup blocker + XMLHttpRequest +
 srand() = oops

No, we never patch bugs. Where would this lead us? Only commies taking over!

Tracked in bug 369390.

James Matthews wrote:
> Do you think it will be patched??
>
> On 2/5/07, *Michal Zalewski* <lcamtuf@...ne.ids.pl 
> <mailto:lcamtuf@...ne.ids.pl>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, pdp (architect) wrote:
>
>     > You may as well use a QuickTime .mov/.qtl or a PDF document to
>     open a
>     > file:// link . I think it is easier.
>
>     Sure. You can probably have a file:// link in Open Office / MS Office
>     documents as well; but these all rely on external components, and
>     as such,
>     attacks could be shrugged off as a weakness in these apps (and there's
>     some truth to this).
>
>     Browser authors know better, and they disallow file:// URLs from the
>     Internet ever since Javascript became so powerful; this case
>     managed to
>     slip through, so I thought it's a neat example, in conjunction with
>     deterministic temporary files.
>
>     /mz
>
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