CVE-2006-6506
First published: Wed Dec 20 2006(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Firefox | =2.0 |
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Reference Links
- http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=215
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-75.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017421
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23282
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23589
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23545
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23614
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23672
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068
- agent/type
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/last-modified-date
- collector/nvd-historical
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/weakness
- agent/author
- agent/severity
- agent/references
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/mozilla
- canonical/mozilla firefox
- version/mozilla firefox/2.0