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CVE-2016-2830

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Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 preserve the network connection used for favicon resource retrieval after the associated browser window is closed, which makes it easier for remote web servers to track users by observing network traffic from multiple IP addresses.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published8/5/2016

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

mozilla:firefox

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-63.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1(security@mozilla.org)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255270(security@mozilla.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15(security@mozilla.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-63.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255270(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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