Bug 1387588 (CVE-2016-5288)

Summary: CVE-2016-5288 firefox: Web content can read cache entries
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-21 10:33:44 UTC
It was demonstrated that web content could access information in the HTTP cache if e10s is disabled. This can reveal some visited URLs and the contents of those pages. This issue affects Firefox 48 and 49.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1310183

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-21 10:34:30 UTC
Created firefox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1387589]