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MFSA2017-27 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 57.0.1 (CVE-2017-7844)

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MFSA2017-27 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 57.0.1 (CVE-2017-7844)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/05/2017
Modified
08/08/2018

Description

A combination of an external SVG image referenced on a page and the coloring of anchor links stored within this image can be used to determine which pages a user has in their history. This can allow a malicious website to query user history. Note: This issue only affects Firefox 57. Earlier releases are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.0.1.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-57_0_1

References

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