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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3987-1 firefox-esr -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Sep 2017

Affected Packages:

firefox-esr

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7793, CVE-2017-7805, CVE-2017-7810, CVE-2017-7814, CVE-2017-7818, CVE-2017-7819, CVE-2017-7823, CVE-2017-7824.

More information:

Several security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, use-after-frees, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service, cross-site scripting or bypass of the phishing and malware protection feature.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 52.4.0esr-1~deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 52.4.0esr-1~deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your firefox-esr packages.