CVE-2016-2830

CVE Details

Release Date:	2016-08-02
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

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.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
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