CVE-2006-6506

The "Feed Preview" feature in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 before 2.0.0.1 sends the URL of the feed when requesting favicon.ico icons, which results in a privacy leak that might allow feed viewing services to determine browsing habits.

🔗 References (34)

• secalert@redhathttp://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/23282
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/23545
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/23589
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/23614
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/23672
• secalert@redhathttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml
• secalert@redhathttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017421
• secalert@redhathttp://www.legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=215
• secalert@redhathttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-75.html
• secalert@redhathttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html
• secalert@redhathttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html
• secalert@redhathttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668
• secalert@redhathttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-1
• secalert@redhathttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html