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
Link Resource
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://secunia.com/advisories/23282
http://secunia.com/advisories/23545
http://secunia.com/advisories/23589
http://secunia.com/advisories/23614
http://secunia.com/advisories/23672
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017421
http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=215 Exploit
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-75.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-1
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://secunia.com/advisories/23282
http://secunia.com/advisories/23545
http://secunia.com/advisories/23589
http://secunia.com/advisories/23614
http://secunia.com/advisories/23672
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017421
http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=215 Exploit
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-75.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-1
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2006-12-20 01:28

Updated : 2025-04-09 00:30


NVD link : CVE-2006-6506

Mitre link : CVE-2006-6506

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2006-6506


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Products Affected

mozilla

  • firefox