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Re:The Several Million Dollar Bug by joosters on Monday June 09, 2014 @10:04AM (#7868480)
Potentially, you could imagine a poorly-written web browser that could be fooled by an extra HTTP response, confusing it with a later request to a different web site.

So you could follow up a HTTP response for http://empty.website.with.no.other.files.to.request.com/ with a HTTP response containing malicious javacript. When the user then tries to view a different website (say their facebook page), they get 'served' your javascript that is now running under the context of the new site. Cookie stealing and other attacks could be run.

In practice it would be unlikely to happen. If the client doesn't read the 2nd request then it is likely to be sitting in a network buffer assigned to the first connection, which will probably be thrown away when it comes to open a connection to the new site.

Re:The Several Million Dollar Bug by chetanahuja on Monday June 09, 2014 @12:16PM (#7869076)
That's not how it would work. The later request would be made on a fresh TCP connection (since it's a different URL). Your previous unsolicited response is sitting in the buffers for the old TCP connection. They would not mingle.