CVE-2016-2830

CVE Details

Release Date:

2016-08-02

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 preservethe 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.

See more information about CVE-2016-2830 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-1551	2016-08-03
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-1551	2016-08-03
Oracle Linux version 7 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-1551	2016-08-03

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