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On the Incoherencies in Web Browser Access Control Policies
On the Incoherencies in Web Browser Access Control Policies Kapil Singh∗, Alexander Moshchuk†, Helen J. Wang† and Wenke Lee∗ ∗Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Email: {ksingh, wenke}@cc.gatech.edu †Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA Email: {alexmos, helenw}@microsoft.com Abstract—Web browsers’ access control policies have evolved Inconsistent principal labeling. Today’s browsers do piecemeal in an ad-hoc fashion with the introduction of new not have the same principal definition for all browser re- browser features. This has resulted in numerous incoherencies. sources (which include the Document Object Model (DOM), In this paper, we analyze three major access control flaws in today’s browsers: (1) principal labeling is different for different network, cookies, other persistent state, and display). For resources, raising problems when resources interplay, (2) run- example, for the DOM (memory) resource, a principal is time changes to principal identities are handled inconsistently, labeled by the origin defined in the same origin policy and (3) browsers mismanage resources belonging to the user (SOP) in the form of <protocol, domain, port> [4]; but principal. We show that such mishandling of principals leads for the cookie resource, a principal is labeled by <domain, to many access control incoherencies, presenting hurdles for > web developers to construct secure web applications. path . Different principal definitions for two resources are A unique contribution of this paper is to identify the com- benign as long as the two resources do not interplay with patibility cost of removing these unsafe browser features. To do each other. However, when they do, incoherencies arise. For this, we have built WebAnalyzer, a crawler-based framework example, when cookies became accessible through DOM’s for measuring real-world usage of browser features, and used “document” object, DOM’s access control policy, namely the it to study the top 100,000 popular web sites ranked by Alexa. -
Australian SF News 28
NUMBER 28 registered by AUSTRALIA post #vbg2791 95C Volume 4 Number 2 March 1982 COW & counts PUBLISH 3 H£W ttOVttS CORY § COLLINS have published three new novels in their VOID series. RYN by Jack Wodhams, LANCES OF NENGESDUL by Keith Taylor and SAPPHIRE IN THIS ISSUE: ROAD by Wynne Whiteford. The recommended retail price on each is $4.95 Distribution is again a dilemna for them and a^ter problems with some DITMAR AND NEBULA AWARD NOMINATIONS, FRANK HERBERT of the larger paperback distributors, it seems likely that these titles TO WRITE FIFTH DUNE BOOK, ROBERT SILVERBERG TO DO will be handled by ALLBOOKS. Carey Handfield has just opened an office in Melbourne for ALLBOOKS and will of course be handling all their THIRD MAJIPOOR BOOK, "FRIDAY" - A NEW ROBERT agencies along with NORSTRILIA PRESS publications. HEINLEIN NOVEL DUE OUT IN JUNE, AN APPRECIATION OF TSCHA1CON GOH JACK VANCE BY A.BERTRAM CHANDLER, GEORGE TURNER INTERVIEWED, Philip K. Dick Dies BUG JACK BARRON TO BE FILMED, PLUS MORE NEWS, REVIEWS, LISTS AND LETTERS. February 18th; he developed pneumonia and a collapsed lung, and had a second stroke on February 24th, which put him into a A. BERTRAM CHANDLER deep coma and he was placed on a respir COMPLETES NEW NOVEL ator. There was no brain activity and doctors finally turned off the life A.BERTRAM CHANDLER has completed his support system. alternative Australian history novel, titled KELLY COUNTRY. It is in the hands He had a tremendous influence on the sf of his agents and publishers. GRIMES field, with a cult following in and out of AND THE ODD GODS is a short sold to sf fandom, but with the making of the Cory and Collins and IASFM in the U.S.A. -
SHAMAR's WAR the STAR KING OH, to BE'a-Btubel JACK VANCE
FEBRUARY SHAMAR’S WAR THE STAR KING OH, TO BE'A-BtuBEL by by by KRIS NEVILLE JACK VANCE PHILIP K. DICK A New Complete Novelette 1964 GRANDMOTHER A New EARTH Complete by J. Novelette T. MdNTQSH DON’T CLIP THE COUPON- — if you want to keep your copy of Galaxy intact for permanent possession!* Why mutilate a good thing? But, by the same token... if you're devotee enough to want to keep your copies in mint condition, you ought to subscribe. You really ought to. For one thing, you get your copies earlier. For another, you’re sure you'll get them! Sometimes newsstands run out — the mail never does. (And you can just put your name and address on a plain sheet of paper and mail it to us, at the address below. We’ll know what you mean... provided you enclose your check!) In the past few years Galaxy has published the finest stories by the finest writers in the field - Bester, Heinlein, Pohl, Asimov, Sturgeon, Leiber and nearly everyone else. In the next few years it will go right on, with stories that are just as good ... or better. Don’t miss any issue of Galaxy. You can make sure you won’t. Just subcribe today. *(lf, on the other hand, your habit is to read them once and go on to something new - please - feel free to use the coupon! It’s for your convenience, not ours.) U GALAXY Publishing Corp., 421 Hudson Street, New York 14, N. Y. (50c additional per 6 issues Enter my subscription for the New Giant 196-page Galaxy foreign postage) (U. -
Using Replicated Execution for a More Secure and Reliable Web Browser
Using Replicated Execution for a More Secure and Reliable Web Browser Hui Xue Nathan Dautenhahn Samuel T. King University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign huixue2, dautenh1, kingst @uiuc.edu { } Abstract Unfortunately, hackers actively exploit these vulnerabil- ities as indicated in reports from the University of Wash- Modern web browsers are complex. They provide a ington [46], Microsoft [61], and Google [49, 48]. high-performance and rich computational environment Both industry and academia have improved the se- for web-based applications, but they are prone to nu- curity and reliability of web browsers. Current com- merous types of security vulnerabilities that attackers modity browsers make large strides towards improving actively exploit. However, because major browser plat- the security and reliability of plugins by using sandbox- forms differ in their implementations they rarely exhibit ing techniques to isolate plugins from the rest of the the same vulnerabilities. browser [62, 33]. However, these browsers still scatter In this paper we present Cocktail, a system that uses security logic throughout millions of lines of code, leav- three different off-the-shelf web browsers in parallel to ing these systems susceptible to browser-based attacks. provide replicated execution for withstanding browser- Current research efforts, like Tahoma [32], the OP web based attacks and improving browser reliability. Cock- browser [36], the Gazelle web browser [59], and the Illi- tail mirrors inputs to each replica and votes on browser nois Browser Operating System [58] all propose build- states and outputs to detect potential attacks, while con- ing new web browsers to improve security. Although tinuing to run. -
HTTP Cookie - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia 14/05/2014
HTTP cookie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 14/05/2014 Create account Log in Article Talk Read Edit View history Search HTTP cookie From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Navigation A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser HTTP Main page cookie, is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a Persistence · Compression · HTTPS · Contents user's web browser while the user is browsing that website. Every time Request methods Featured content the user loads the website, the browser sends the cookie back to the OPTIONS · GET · HEAD · POST · PUT · Current events server to notify the website of the user's previous activity.[1] Cookies DELETE · TRACE · CONNECT · PATCH · Random article Donate to Wikipedia were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember Header fields Wikimedia Shop stateful information (such as items in a shopping cart) or to record the Cookie · ETag · Location · HTTP referer · DNT user's browsing activity (including clicking particular buttons, logging in, · X-Forwarded-For · Interaction or recording which pages were visited by the user as far back as months Status codes or years ago). 301 Moved Permanently · 302 Found · Help 303 See Other · 403 Forbidden · About Wikipedia Although cookies cannot carry viruses, and cannot install malware on 404 Not Found · [2] Community portal the host computer, tracking cookies and especially third-party v · t · e · Recent changes tracking cookies are commonly used as ways to compile long-term Contact page records of individuals' browsing histories—a potential privacy concern that prompted European[3] and U.S. -
Lime Rock Gazette
L 1M E R 0 C K GAZETTE. DEVOTED TO COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, ART, SCIENCE, MORALITY AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY RICHARDSON & PORTER. Tpiihs, $1,50 in Advance, $1.75 in six monllis $2.00 afleiv-Adverliseinenls inserted al Hie ciisloniarv prices VOL J- LAST—TIIOIIASTOV, TlllltSO AV 1IOILVIA«L O< TOK I it 15. 1840 AO. »». i.j_ - xi u f c i . b.w rjw vjwcyxayztt i TIlC Relllllied Pastor. *,o,n v*cw> nn,l 0,1 *Gc morning of the 'themselves together for family worship.— from nine o’clock in the morning to three 'Aint I a man now. Miss Tabitha, I ’d only, however, who knew the former level- twenty-second of the same month he look- Ho was told that twenty missionaries might I in the nOcrnoon; and from live to nine in like to know ,’ said Jotliam , rising with ness o f the spot. Ct will be recollected By many ol otn renders, that (,d ,|p0„ ,bc s|,((1.es of England—on the find employment there. the eveninu. There were twelve hundred spirit and putting his hat on his head, ‘ I f The Lieutenant, who had c ritic a lly the Kcv. Mr. Vomroy, Tastor ot the livst ( j following day ho landed. He wished to; Mr. l’omroy enumerated the places of | persons composing the convention, about I aint a man now. and a whole hog o f a watched the manoeuvring of the men, grognltonnl Church ol Bangor, lelt his people see ns much of the land of our fathers as interest ho visited in the Holy Land.— nine hundred of whom were clergymen, one too, I think it darned strange.’ congratulated the Orderly on the perfec- sonic sixteen months Since, for an European possible— a land that should lie dear to ! Sidon, Sarepta, Tyre. -
The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser
The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser Helen J. Wang, Chris Grier, Alex Moshchuk, Sam King, Piali Choudhury, Herman Venter Browser as an application platform • Single stop for many computing needs – banking, shopping, office tasks, social networks, entertainment • Static document browsing rich programs – obtained from mutually distrusting origins – same-origin policy: a browser is a multi-principal platform where web sites are principals • Browser = prime target of today’s attackers Your valuables are online! • Existing browser security mentality: – valuables on local machine – protect local machine from the web Browser OS • This work’s mentality: – valuables online – must also protect web site principals from one another Browser OS Browser design requires OS thinking • Cross-principal protection is an essential function of an operating system • Fundamental flaw with existing browser designs: – OS logic is intermingled with application-specific content processing – consequences: HTML • unreliable cross-principal protection JS engine parsing • many vulnerabilities DOM same-origin rendering protection Persistent network state access browser Gazelle • An OS exclusively manages: HTML JS engine – protection across principals parsing DOM – resource allocation same-origin – resource access control rendering protection Persistent network state access • Our approach for designing Gazelle: Browser kernel – take all OS functionality out of content processing logic – put it into a small, simple browser kernel Gazelle • Build -
Asfacts July13.Pub
ASFACTS 2013 JULY “H EAT WAVE & H UMIDITY ” I SSUE NEBULA WINNERS ANNOUNCED The 2012 Nebula Awards were presented May 18, 2013, in a ceremony at SFWA’s 48th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend in San Jose, CA. Gene Wolfe was hon- ored with the 2012 Damon Knight Grand Master Award for his lifetime contributions and achievements in the field. A list of winners follows: First Novel: Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Novel: 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson, Novella: Ahmed, Young Adult Book: Railsea by China Miéville, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Novella: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall Kress, Novelette: “Close Encounters” by Andy Duncan, by Nancy Kress, Novelette: “The Girl-Thing Who Went Short Story: “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard, Ray Out for Sushi” by Pat Cadigan, Short Story: “Immersion” Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: by Aliette de Bodard, Anthology: Edge of Infinity edited Beasts of the Southern Wild , and Andre Norton Award by Jonathan Strahan, and Collection: Shoggoths in Bloom for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book: Fair by Elizabeth Bear. Coin by E.C. Myers. Non-Fiction: Distrust That Particular Flavor by Carl Sagan and Ginjer Buchanan received Solstice William Gibson, Art Book: Spectrum 19: The Best in Awards, and Michael H. Payne was given the Kevin Contemporary Fantastic Art edited by Cathy Fenner & O’Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award. Arnie Fenner, Artist: Michael Whelan, Editor: Ellen Dat- low, Magazine: Asimov’s , and Publisher: Tor. ROGERS & D ENNING HOSTING PRE -CON PARTY RICHARD MATHESON DEAD Patricia Rogers and Scott Denning will uphold a local fannish tradition when they host the Bubonicon 45 LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) -- Richard Pre-Con Party 7:30-10:30 pm Thursday, August 22, at Matheson, the prolific sci-fi and fantasy writer whose I their home in Bernalillo – located at 909 Highway 313. -
Science Fiction Review 29 Geis 1979-01
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1979 NUMBER 29 SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW $1.50 NOISE LEVEL By John Brunner Interviews: JOHN BRUNNER MICHAEL MOORCOCK HANK STINE Orson Scott Card - Charles Platt - Darrell Schweitzer Elton Elliott - Bill Warren SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW Formerly THE ALIEN CRITIC RO. Bex 11408 COVER BY STEPHEN FABIAN January, 1979 — Vol .8, No.l Based on a forthcoming novel, SIVA, Portland, OR WHOLE NUMBER 29 by Leigh Richmond 97211 ALIEN TOUTS......................................3 RICHARD E. GEIS, editor & piblisher SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION INTERVIEW WITH JOHN BRUWER............. 8 PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY CONDUCTED BY IAN COVELL PAGE 63 JAN., MARCH, MAY, JULY, SEPT., NOV. NOISE LEVEL......................................... 15 SINGLE COPY ---- $1.50 A COLUMN BY JOHN BRUNNER REVIEWS-------------------------------------------- INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MOORCOCK.. .18 PHOfC: (503) 282-0381 CONDUCTED BY IAN COVELL "seasoning" asimov's (sept-oct)...27 "swanilda 's song" analog (oct)....27 THE REVIEW OF SHORT FICTION........... 27 "LITTLE GOETHE F&SF (NOV)........28 BY ORSON SCOTT CARD MARCHERS OF VALHALLA..............................97 "the wind from a burning WOMAN ...28 SKULL-FACE....................................................97 "hunter's moon" analog (nov).....28 SON OF THE WHITE WOLF........................... 97 OCCASIONALLY TENTIONING "TUNNELS OF THE MINDS GALILEO 10.28 SWORDS OF SHAHRAZAR................................97 SCIENCE FICTION................................ 31 "the incredible living man BY DARRELL SCHWEITZER BLACK CANAAN........................................ -
Abraham, 151 Abercrombie Station, 130 Achilles, 357 Aesop, 355
Index Abraham, 151 Chauser, 231, 233 366 Abercrombie Station, 130 Chesterton, G. K., 207 Faulkner, William, 15 Achilles, 357 Churchill, 55, 86 Flaubert, Gustave, 296 Aesop, 355 Cholwell’s Chickens, 130 Flesh Mask, The, 365-7, 379, 385 Alfred’s Ark, 123, 204, 242-4 Chrétien de Troyes, 248 & etc, Ford Madox Ford, 118 Allen, Woody; 96 250-52, 257 Fra Angelico, 380 Anaxagoras, 335, 342-53 Clarges, 16, 25, 30-32, 74, Frazetta, Frank, 209, 228 Aquinas, St. Thomas, 150 174, 177 Gainsborough, Thomas, 288 Arcimboldo, 380 Clarke, Arthur C., 17 Gesualdo, 380 Aristophanes, 398 Communism, 59, 82-6, 93, 143, Gift of Gab, The, 123 Aristotle, 280-1, 330, 336 & etc. 147, 249 319, 321, 329 & etc. Giotto, 228 Augmented Agent, The, 146 Coup de Grace, 16, 207 Gogol, Nicolai, 20, 195 Austen, Jane, 105 & etc, 191-2, Crusade to Maxus, 140 & etc. Gold and Iron, 20-1, 36, 81, 112, 241, 289, 380 Cugel (stories), 51, 106, 135-6, 118, 141, 143, 292, 383 Babeuf, Gracchus; 320 & etc. 155-6, 191, 200, 207, 231, Golden Girl, The, 20 Bad Ronald, 55, 221-2, 225, 248, 248-9, 251, 298, 340, Goncharov, 230 337, 340, 364- 6 355 & etc, 390, 392-3 Goya, Francesco, 23 Bain, Joe (stories), 205-6, 364, Dante, 15, 231, 233 Green Magic, 175-6, 387 378-9 Dark Ocean, The, 142, 201, 365 Grey, Zane, 46 Balzac, 52-54, 230, 379-83 Darwin, 68 & etc, 265, 287 Hardy, Thomas, 20 Beiderbecke, Bix, 136 Deadly Isles, The, 53, 365, 369 Hayden, 115 Benda, Julian, 80 Dickens, 112, 230, 289, 380 Heidegger, Martin, 214-9, 223, Big Planet, 12, 132, 231-32, Diderot, 16 227, 360-3, 367, 385 290, 383 Dodkin’s Job, 123, 153, 204, Hitchcock, Alfred, 289 Bird Island, 264, 370, 373 332 Hitler, 83-7, 201 Blake, William, 209 Dogtown Tourist Agency, The, Hogarth, 288 Blue World, The, 59, 189, 36, 38, 108, 332 Holbein, 289 228 & etc, 271 Domains of Koryphon, The, 15, Homer, 15, 216, 228, 355 & etc. -
Cosmopolis 3 (Editor’S Note: Mr
COSMOPOLIS Volume 1, Issue 3 March 2000 Cheers, Keeping the Gate Jeff On February 4 of this year, I received mail from Paul “This is preposterous! Must we welcome each scoundrel of time Rhoads, asking me if I were interested in joining VIE management. I answered with a hesitant “yes”; hesitant, into our midst, to satiate himself on our good things, meanwhile because I was standing in a different line when management perverting our customs?” skills were passed out. He responded that he had the “gatekeeper” function in mind, a job that had previously been Jack Vance, Rhialto the Marvellous done by him, as well as Mike Berro, Suan Yong, and now Tim When Bob Lacovara asked me to write this article, I Stretton, whose function as head of the proofreading team was immediately asked Jeff’s permission to quote him. This was his keeping him busy enough, thank you. I accepted. response: So from that day, I have been the human being on the I’m flattered...please quote whatever you like, with full attribution. other side of [email protected] and After all, I’m proud of my Vance geekness ;-) [email protected], the first person to get the good news that another discerning reader has thrown his lot in with Of course, the gatekeeper isn’t simply there to sign people the VIE or offered to assist in its realization. I have received up and pass them on to the webmasters and team leaders. A mail from Europe (Scandinavia and the Netherlands), North certain amount of time is spent answering questions that many America (including the LA suburb I grew up in), Australia and of you have about various aspects of the VIE. -
Yandros; by Our Records, He Began Subscribing with Issue ?#152, in 1965
Published, by Robert & Juanita Coulson, Route 3, Hartford City, IN 473U8, USA British Agent is Alan Dodd, '77 Stanstead Road, Hoddesdon, Herts., Great Britain Price: US, 750, $ for $3*00, 10 for S5«00 - Britain, 35p, 5 for El.fjO, 10 for E2.5O .. CONTENTS . Ramblings (editorial)- - - ------- _ _ _ _ JWC --------- ----------- ------- _______ _ 2 Rumblings ( " )- -------------------------. - RSC-----------.------------------ --------- ---------------- 4 A Coulumn - - — — _________ Bruce Coulson -------------6 An Advertisement Brought To You - - by Darrell Schweitzer, John Miesel, and ■ . • . Sandra Miesel--------8 Star. Laden Trek To A Black Wormhole - - Thomas Stratton - - - - - ------ --- -11 ; Grumblings (letters) - -- -- -- -- -- — ---------------- 14 Special Book Review - -- -- -- -- - rsc. - - - - - - ----------- - - - 13 Things That Go BumpJ In The Mailbox - - the. readers - — — ________ 18 Golden Minutes (book reviews) - - RSC ________ 20 Strange Fruit (fanzine reviews)-----------RSC -----------------. - ------------------------ ------ 39 ARTWORK . Cover by Fred. Jac.obcic Cover logo by Dave Locke Page 1 - - Joyce Scrivner (-wThe State of Reading Yaidro.; part 2 of a series) "2-------- - JWC Page 9 - - — - Alexis Gilliland «4------ -~- JWC " 10 - - - - - Alexis Gilliland " 6 - - - - - - - - - JWC . "L .14 ------ - Al Sirois " 8 - - - - - Alexis Gilliland ’’ 16 ----- - - Jann Frank "An Advertisement Brought To You" copyright 1980 by the authors Irv Jacobs, P.O. Box 57U, National City, CA 92050, is planning to dispose of his old YANDROs; by our records, he began subscribing with issue ?#152, in 1965. He wants 250 apiece, plus pos tage, and wants to sell them as a lot. NEW ADDRESSES ' Bruce Coulson and Lori Huff, 2454 Indiana Ave., Columbus, OH 43202 Ruth Berman, 2809 Dewey, #120, Norman, OK 73069 (for college year only; she’s teaching Freshman Corrip.) Jim Turner, 9218 8th. Ave. NW, Seattle, WA 98117 Hank Luttrell, 2619 Monroe St., Madison, WI 53711 Lesleigh Luttrell, 51h Stang St.