CVE-2006-6506 Information

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.

Reference

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 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 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083