Bug 1220603 – CVE-2015-2711 Mozilla: <meta name="referrer"> is ignored for navigations from the context menu and via a middle-click (MFSA 2015-49)

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Bug 1220603 - (CVE-2015-2711) CVE-2015-2711 Mozilla: <meta name="referrer"> is ignored for navigations from the context menu and via a middle-click (MFSA 2015-49)

Summary:	CVE-2015-2711 Mozilla: <meta name="referrer"> is ignored for navigations from...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2015-2711

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2015-05-11 21:14 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2015-05-12 14:23 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2015-05-12 14:23:46 EDT
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-05-11 21:14:20 EDT

Security researcher Alex Verstak reported that <meta name="referrer"> is ignored when a link is opened through the context menu or a middle-click by mouse. This means that, in some situations, the referrer policy is ignored when opening links in new tabs and may cause some pages to open without an HTTP Referer header being set according to the author's intended policy. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-49.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Alex Verstak as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

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