CVE-2006-6506
N/A
Published: December 20, 2006 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFirefox
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-1
References (17)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_HP
Source: [email protected]
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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