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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-2830): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 4, 2016
Added
Aug 6, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

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