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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1321-1 firefox-esr -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

27 Mar 2018

Affected Packages:

firefox-esr

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-5148.

More information:

Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in Firefox, which could be exploited to trigger an application crash or arbitrary code execution.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 52.7.3esr-1~deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your firefox-esr packages.

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