Re:Chrome Bugs Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Convers...
by poopsintub on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @03:03PM
(#7104993)
I've experienced pop-ups occurring that go behind. It's not like you don't notice it or anything though. Should this be considered a chrome security flaw? You did, after-all, grant privileges to that site. Revoke and report the site?
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Re:Chrome Bugs Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Convers...
by sil3ntmac on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @08:10PM
(#7106451)
I would say yes. Pop-unders should be blocked, and modern browsers work pretty hard to, but it is often viewed as a "low priority" sec issue, and so workarounds are found, ignored, used in the wild, and patched. Here is one implementation, I have seen working versions up to Chrome ~30:
https://github.com/tuki/js-popunder
Another serious security issue is when the popunder waits for a while as the parent frame navigates itself to e.g. "java.com", then the child navigates the parent to a malicious drive-by download. This can make it appear to "spoof" a drive-by download. This attack vector has been known and ignored forever (I think Zalewski published about this years back). IE9 and 10 actually do a good job preventing this, but I know it works in most modern browsers.
Re:Chrome Bugs Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Convers...
by freshchilled on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @06:21PM
(#7106082)
The problem is that you don't expect a pop-under to continue collecting information from you, especially when you intended to close the connection!