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."
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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EUVD-2009-4595 | 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." |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-17T02:32:48.298Z
Reserved: 2010-01-29T00:00:00Z
Link: CVE-2009-4630
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2010-01-29T18:30:00.887
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2009-4630
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD