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Debian DSA-3728-1 High: Firefox-ESR Use-After-Free Code Execution

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2016
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Tackling DSA-3728-1 in Firefox ESR, resolving a significant use-after-free vulnerability that could result in code execution or cause application crashes.
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) o...

Summary

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.

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-2016-9079

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