288671 - audit my pc reports my private IP address during firewall test, IE 6.0.290000 does not

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260288

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[Russell W Dunham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0  FireFox 1.0.2

I am behind a router on a home network. Audit My PC firewall test with FireFox 
1.0.2 reports back my private IP address 192.168.2.xxx. When doing the same 
firewall test with IE 6.0.290000 my private IP is NOT revealed. Is this a 
security breach with FireFox?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.got to http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/scanoptions.asp
2.Click on firewall test
3.Note private IP revealed

Actual Results:  
Private IP is repaorted by the firewall test.

Expected Results:  
Firewall test should be passed as it is with IE 6.0.290000

NA

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Java is doing this, complain to Sun. If you set IE to use Sun's Java then it,
too, will be vulnerable. If you turn off Java in Firefox then you will not be.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260288 ***