Information Exposure Affecting firefox package, versions <48.0-1
Snyk CVSS
Threat Intelligence
Do your applications use this vulnerable package?
In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.
Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FIREFOX-423728
- published 5 Aug 2016
- disclosed 5 Aug 2016
Introduced: 5 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-2830 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
firefox
to version 48.0-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox
package and not the firefox
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2830
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-63.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255270
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-2830
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1