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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…