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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2010-01-29T18:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T02:58:07.207Z

Reserved: 2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2009-4629

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2010-01-29T18:30:00.840

Modified: 2010-02-02T05:00:00.000

Link: CVE-2009-4629

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-05-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-4629 - Bugzilla