273848 - A serious security bug which works by "hi-jacking" pop-up windows

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 273699

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jamie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_window_injection_vulnerability_test/
I recently founbd a link to this on slashdot.org, after testing on my copy of
firefox which was downloaded very(about a wekk ago) recently it appeared to have
some limited affects.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click the link
2. Goto both browser test options on the site.


Actual Results:  
Occassionally the window appeared to be hi-jacked by the site designed to
demonstrate the bug

Expected Results:  
The window should not have been hijacked

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 273699 ***