Bugtraq: Re: [Full-disclosure] Firefox + popup blocker + XMLHttpRequest + srand() = oops

[Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () dione ids pl>]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, pdp (architect) wrote:

> You may as well use a QuickTime .mov/.qtl or a PDF document to open a
> file:// link . I think it is easier.
Sure. You can probably have a file:// link in Open Office / MS Office
documents as well; but these all rely on external components, and as such,
attacks could be shrugged off as a weakness in these apps (and there's
some truth to this).

Browser authors know better, and they disallow file:// URLs from the
Internet ever since Javascript became so powerful; this case managed to
slip through, so I thought it's a neat example, in conjunction with
deterministic temporary files.

/mz