31340 : Mozilla Firefox RSS Feed-preview Referrer Leak
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2006-12-19

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-6506" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : The "Feed Preview" feature in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 before 2.0.0.1 sends the URL of the feed when requesting favicon.ico icons, which results in a privacy leak that might allow feed viewing services to determine browsing habits.

Classification

Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2006-6506 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 21668
Secunia Advisory ID: 23282 23433 23439 23440 23468 23545 23589 23591 23598 23601 23614 23618 23672 23692
SCIP VulDB ID: 2777
Related OSVDB ID: 31339 31341 31342 31343 31344 31345 31348
CERT VU: 928956
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2006-5068
Other Advisory URL: http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Dec/0010.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0006.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-03.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml
http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=215
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-400-1
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-883
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-75.html
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358878
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2006:0758 RHSA-2006:0759 RHSA-2006:0760

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Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-12-20 | Disagree?

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