CVE-2016-2830

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255270

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3