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Minor firefox DoS - semi silently polluting ~/Downloads with files (part 2)

Posted by Georgi Guninski on Jan 18

Minor firefox DoS - semi silently polluting ~/Downloads with files (part 2)

Tested on: firefox 121 and chrome 120 on GNU/linux

Date: Thu Jan 18 08:38:28 AM UTC 2024

This is barely a DoS, but since it might affect Chrome too we decided
to disclose it.

If firefox user visits a specially crafted page, then firefox
may create many files in `~/Downloads`,
The user is notified about this in a small dialog, but there is
no option to stop the...