PT-2016-5227 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+6

Published 2016-08-02 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-2830

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 48.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions 45.x prior to 45.3

Description The issue allows remote web servers to track users by observing network traffic from multiple IP addresses, as the network connection used for favicon resource retrieval is preserved after the associated browser window is closed.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 48.0, update to version 48.0 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR versions 45.x prior to 45.3, update to version 45.3 or later.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1836

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CESA-2016_1551

CVE-2016-2830

DLA-585-1

DSA-3640-1

MGASA-2016-0278

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2253-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2254-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1964-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2026-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2016:1551

RHSA-2016_1551

SUSE-SU-2016:2061-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2195-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2131-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2195-1

SUSE-SU-2019:2872-1

USN-3044-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2193

• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-67 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-64 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-70 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-76 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:2254-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:2872-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-63 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3044-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-80 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-79 · Vendor Advisory