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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0702112153550.30989@dione>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:54:40 +0100 (CET)
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...ne.ids.pl>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Firefox focus stealing vulnerability
	(possibly other browsers)

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Michal Zalewski wrote:

> This was tested with 2.0.0.1. Opera is most likely not vulnerable;
> Microsoft Internet Explorer is not vulnerable as-is, but might be
> vulnerable to a variant of the attack.

And indeed - here's a MSIE 7.0 demo:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/focusbug/ieversion.html

Somewhat less pretty and straightforward, but equally sad.

/mz

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