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Mozilla Firefox RSS Feed Preview Referrer Leak

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Mozilla Firefox RSS Feed Preview Referrer Leak

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/19/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/29/2007
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

The "Feed Preview" feature of Mozilla firefox 2.0 is vulnerable to a referrer leak when it retrieves icons of installed web-based feed viewers. Referrer information could be gathered by malicious website operators to obtain feed-browsing habits of unsuspecting visitors.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_5_0_9
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest

References

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