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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-11

Web forgery overwrite with div overlay

Announced
February 7, 2008
Reporter
Emil Ljungdahl, Lars-Olof Moilanen
Impact
Low
Products
Firefox
Fixed in
  • Firefox 2.0.0.12

Description

Security researchers Emil Ljungdahl and Lars-Olof Moilanen demonstrated that, in cases where the entire contents of a page are enclosed in a <div> with absolute positioning, a web forgery warning dialog won't be displayed unless the user switches tabs away-from then back-to the forgery page.

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