Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3805-1 firefox-esr -- security update

Date Reported:

08 Mar 2017

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5400, CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5404, CVE-2017-5405, CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410.

More information:

Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, use-after-frees and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, ASLR bypass, information disclosure or denial of service.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 45.8.0esr-1~deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 45.8.0esr-1 of firefox-esr and version 52.0-1 of firefox.

We recommend that you upgrade your firefox-esr packages.