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CVE-2016-1939

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2016-02-01	mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2016-1939 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2016-1939
Phase	Assigned(20160120)

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7208.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-04.html
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233784
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2016:0306
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2016:0309