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Debian Jessie: DSA-3771-1 Critical Memory Flaws in Firefox ESR

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2017
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Debian DSA-3772-1 highlights severe vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. Please upgrade immediately for enhanced security against mail exploits and unauthorized access.
Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Memory safety errors, use-after-frees and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbi...
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Summary

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

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 45.7.0esr-1~deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 45.7.0esr-1 of firefox-esr and version 51.0-1 of 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/



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Package: firefox-esr
CVE ID: CVE-2017-5373 CVE-2017-5375 CVE-2017-5376 CVE-2017-5378

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