Thunderbird 3.0.1 and prior [Medium]

By Security Team on Friday, January 29th, 2010 in Security Notifications | Related Software Packages:

Affects:

  • Thunderbird 3.0.1 and prior [Medium]

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.”

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-4630
Severity: Medium

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