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Re: [Full-disclosure] Firefox focus stealing vulnerability (possibly other browsers)
- To: "pdp (architect)" <pdp.gnucitizen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Firefox focus stealing vulnerability (possibly other browsers)
- From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:16:05 +0100 (CET)
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, pdp (architect) wrote:
> this is a design problem that is not easy to fix.
That argument would work for a patch deferred by a month or two - not for
seven years.
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).
/mz
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