Debian Security Advisory

DLA-585-1 firefox-esr -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

04 Aug 2016

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-2830, CVE-2016-2836, CVE-2016-2837, CVE-2016-2838, CVE-2016-5252, CVE-2016-5254, CVE-2016-5258, CVE-2016-5259, CVE-2016-5262, CVE-2016-5263, CVE-2016-5264, CVE-2016-5265.

More information:

Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, cross-site scriping, information disclosure and bypass of the same-origin policy.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 45.3.0esr-1~deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your firefox-esr packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS