CVE - CVE-2016-2830

CVE-ID
CVE-2016-2830	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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
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BID:92261 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261 CONFIRM:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-63.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255270 DEBIAN:DSA-3640 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640 GENTOO:GLSA-201701-15 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 REDHAT:RHSA-2016:1551 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html SECTRACK:1036508 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2016:1964 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2016:2026 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html UBUNTU:USN-3044-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1
Assigning CNA
Mozilla Corporation
Date Record Created
20160301	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20160301)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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