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Debian: DSA-3641-2 High: Firefox-ESR Memory Leak Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey August 3, 2016
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Essential security patch for Debian's firefox-esr addresses several vulnerabilities, such as memory leaks and buffer overrun problems.
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 executi...

Summary

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 the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 45.3.0esr-1~deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 45.3.0esr-1 for firefox-esr and 48.0-1 for firefox.

We recommend that you upgrade your firefox-esr packages.

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



Package: firefox-esr
CVE ID: CVE-2016-2830 CVE-2016-2836 CVE-2016-2837 CVE-2016-2838

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