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Firefox Popup Blocker has security hole (v1.5.0.9.)

 
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:38 am    Post subject: Firefox Popup Blocker has security hole Reply with quote
There
is an interesting vulnerability in the default behavior of Firefox built-in
popup blocker. This vulnerability, coupled with an additional trick, allows the
attacker to read arbitrary user-accessible files on the system, and thus steal
some fairly sensitive information. The problem seems to affect Firefox version
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