Re: Firefox focus stealing vulnerability (possibly other browsers)

[Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Michal Zalewski wrote:

> http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/focusbug/index.html (FF)
> http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/focusbug/ieversion.html (MSIE)

Paul Szabo pointed out that this is related to exploits posted by Charles
McAuley and Bart van Arnhem in June 2006 (CVE-2006-2894). These guys did
not demonstrate a complete attack, and their examples do not seem to work
well with MSIE 7 (which might be because of a half-assed attempt to fix
the problem, or perhaps not) - but a credit quite certainly is due.

Original postings:

  http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-June/046610.html
  http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-June/046699.html

Cheers,
/mz