4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-6506

Published: 20/12/2006 Updated: 08/03/2011
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

The "Feed Preview" feature in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 prior to 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a malicious web page containing JavaScript or SVG (CVE-2006-6497, CVE-2006-6498, CVE-2006-6499, CVE-2006-6501, CVE-2006-6502, CVE-2006-6504) ...
Georgi Guninski and David Bienvenu discovered that long Content-Type and RFC2047-encoded headers we vulnerable to heap overflows By tricking the user into opening a specially crafted email, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges (CVE-2006-6506) ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-75 RSS Feed-preview referrer leak Announced December 19, 2006 Reporter Jared Breland Impact Low Products Firefox Fixed in Firefox 2001 ...