Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 11, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-5298
CVE-2016-5298
Description
A mechanism where disruption of the loading of a new web page can cause the previous page's favicon and SSL indicator to not be reset when the new page is loaded. Note: this issue only affects Firefox for Android. Desktop Firefox is unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.
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Affected products
4<50+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <50
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 128.5.1-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 50.1.0-1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/nvdVendor Advisory
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