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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-75

RSS Feed-preview referrer leak

Announced
December 19, 2006
Reporter
Jared Breland
Impact
Low
Products
Firefox
Fixed in
  • Firefox 2.0.0.1

Description

Jared Breland reported on LEGROOM.net that when the new "Feed Preview" feature in Firefox 2.0 retrieves the icons of the installed web-based feed viewers it is potentially informing those services of your feed-browsing habits by sending the URL of the feed in a referrer header with each icon request.

This was an oversight and has been fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.1

Workaround

Upgrade to Firefox 2.0.0.1

References