Critical Update: SLSA-2016:2843-1 for Firefox Arbitrary Code Execution

Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:20:18 -0000
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From: Scott Reid 
Subject: Security ERRATA Critical: firefox on SL5.x, SL6.x,
 SL7.x i386/x86_64
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Message-ID: <20161214182018.15408.68375@slpackages.fnal.gov>

Synopsis: Critical: firefox security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:2843-1
Issue Date: 2016-12-01
CVE Numbers: CVE-2016-9079
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This update upgrades Firefox to version 45.5.1 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* A flaw was 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-2016-9079)
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SL5
 x86_64
 firefox-45.5.1-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
 firefox-45.5.1-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-45.5.1-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-45.5.1-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 firefox-45.5.1-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-45.5.1-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
SL6
 x86_64
 firefox-45.5.1-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-45.5.1-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-45.5.1-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-45.5.1-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
 i386
 firefox-45.5.1-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-45.5.1-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
SL7
 x86_64
 firefox-45.5.1-1.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-45.5.1-1.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-45.5.1-1.el7_3.i686.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-45.5.1-1.el7_3.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team