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Re: phpmyadmin / CVE-2016-9861 / PMASA-2016-66



Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

> Curiously while I can reproduce this in Firefox, I can't under Chrome,
> as it doesn't seem to provide the Referer header in this situation.

It looks like replacing the HTTP header with a block of JavaScript code
really does hide the Referer header in Firefox ESR version 45.5.1esr-1.

Ok, I wasn't exactly expecting that.

So my guess is that the white list only required for certain browsers,
or older browsers or something.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>


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