CVE-2009-4630

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

Description

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."

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492196
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453403

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