CVE-2009-4629

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 29, 2010
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Jan 29, 2010

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://secure.grepular.com/DNS_Prefetch_Exposure_on_Thunderbird_and_Webmail
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492196

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