Scientific Linux: SLSA-2016:0071-1 Critical: Firefox Crash Exploit

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:32:39 +0000
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Critical: firefox on SL5.x, SL6.x,
 SL7.x i386/x86_64
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Message-ID: <20160127163239.9010.68447@slpackages.fnal.gov>

Synopsis: Critical: firefox security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:0071-1
Issue Date: 2016-01-27
CVE Numbers: CVE-2016-1930
 CVE-2016-1935
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Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web
page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
running Firefox. (CVE-2016-1930, CVE-2016-1935)

After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes
to take effect.
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SL5
 x86_64
 firefox-38.6.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
 firefox-38.6.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-38.6.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-38.6.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 firefox-38.6.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-38.6.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
SL6
 x86_64
 firefox-38.6.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-38.6.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-38.6.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-38.6.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
 i386
 firefox-38.6.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-38.6.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
SL7
 x86_64
 firefox-38.6.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-38.6.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-38.6.0-1.el7_2.i686.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-38.6.0-1.el7_2.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team