Published: 05/08/2016 Updated: 16/08/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 1.4 | Exploitability Score: 2.8

VMScore: 383

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Mozilla Firefox prior to 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x prior to 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.

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Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website ...

Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, cross-site scripting, information disclosure and bypass of the same-origin policy For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fi ...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-63 Favicon network connection can persist when page is closed Announced August 2, 2016 Reporter Toni Huttunen Impact High Products Firefox, Firefox ESR Fixed in ...

Mozilla Firefox before 480 and Firefox ESR 45x before 453 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 ...

CWE-200 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-63.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255270 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3044-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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