CVE-2009-4629

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-05-09
Bugzilla:
560133: CVE-2009-4629 thunderbird/seamonkey: privacy compromise via DNS prefetching

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Necko, as used in Thunderbird 3.0.1, SeaMonkey, and other applications, performs DNS prefetching even when the app type is APP_TYPE_MAIL or APP_TYPE_EDITOR, which makes it easier for remote attackers to determine the network location of the application's user by logging DNS requests, as demonstrated by DNS requests triggered by reading text/plain e-mail messages in Thunderbird.

Find out more about CVE-2009-4629 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, and Seamonkey as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

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