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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3728-1 firefox-esr -- security update

Date Reported:

01 Dec 2016

Affected Packages:

firefox-esr

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-9079.

More information:

A use-after-free vulnerability in the SVG Animation was discovered in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code, if a user is tricked into opening a specially crafted website.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 45.5.1esr-1~deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your firefox-esr packages.