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Gentoo: 2015:10 Normal: Mozilla Firefox And Thunderbird Threats

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Calendar Grey December 30, 2015
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird pose risks for arbitrary code execution; users are urged to update.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, the worst of which may allow user-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo arbitrary code Thunderbird Mozilla Firefox normal severity execution threat

Resolution

All Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-38.5.0"
All Firefox-bin users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-bin-38.5.0"
All Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/thunderbird-38.5.0"
All Thunderbird-bin users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-38.5.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-0798 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0798 [ 2 ] CVE-2015-0799 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0799 [ 3 ] CVE-2015-0801 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0801 [ 4 ] CVE-2015-0802 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0802 [ 5 ] CVE-2015-0803 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0803 [ 6 ] CVE-2015-0804 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0804 [ 7 ] CVE-2015-0805 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0805 [ 8 ] CVE-2015-0806 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0806 [ 9 ] CVE-2015-0807 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0807 [ 10 ] CVE-2015-0808 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0808 [ 11 ] CVE-2015-0810 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0810 [ 12 ] CVE-2015-0811 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0811 [ 13 ] CVE-2015-0812 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvena...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 30, 2015
Bugs: #545232, #554036, #556942, #564818, #568376
ID: 201512-10

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo arbitrary code Thunderbird Mozilla Firefox normal severity execution threat

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, the worst of which may allow user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird an open-source email client, both from the Mozilla Project.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/firefox < 38.5.0 >= 38.5.0 2 www-client/firefox-bin < 38.5.0 >= 38.5.0 3 mail-client/thunderbird < 38.5.0 >= 38.5.0 4 mail-client/thunderbird-bin < 38.5.0 >= 38.5.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 affected packages

Impact

===== A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web page or email, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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