CVE-2006-6506

Upstream information

CVE-2006-6506 at MITRE

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 228061 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2006:080, published Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SA:2007:006, published Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:19:54 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:18:51 2023