CVE-2009-4630

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-05-09
Bugzilla:
560134: CVE-2009-4630 firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey: privacy compromise via DNS prefetching (local HTML files)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Necko, as used in Firefox, SeaMonkey, and other applications, performs DNS prefetching of domain names contained in links within local HTML documents, which makes it easier for remote attackers to determine the network location of the application's user by logging DNS requests. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue, stating "I don't think we necessarily need to worry about that case."

Find out more about CVE-2009-4630 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

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

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