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Firefox Popup Blocker Vulnerability
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Posted by: Warez Monster

For those of you that have not seen this yet, a vulnerability in Firefox’s pop-up blocker has been found. Hit the link for all the details.

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.

[url]http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5JP051FKKE.html[/url]