CVE-2009-4629

Mozilla Necko, as used in Thunderbird 3.0.1, SeaMonkey, and other applications, performs DNS prefetching even when the app type is APPTYPEMAIL or APPTYPEEDITOR, which makes it easier for remote attackers to determine the network location of the application's user by logging DNS requests, as...

CVE-2009-4629

Mozilla Necko DNS Information Disclosure (CVE-2009-4629) affects Thunderbird 3.0.1, SeaMonkey, and related apps. The issue is DNS prefetching triggered even for APP_TYPE_MAIL/APP_TYPE_EDITOR, enabling an attacker to infer a user’s network location by logging DNS requests (e.g., when reading text/...