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CVE-2016-2830

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 preserve the network connection used for favicon resource retrieval after the a

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Summary

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.

Timeline

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Affected versions

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    Version range not reported

References 11

debian.org

securitytracker.com

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rhn.redhat.com

security.gentoo.org

bugzilla.mozilla.org

lists.opensuse.org

securityfocus.com

mozilla.org