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SciLinux: SLSA-2017:0558-1 Critical: Firefox Malicious Content Issue

Calendar Mar 20, 2017 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Critical: firefox security update 
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:33:09 -0000
Reply-To: scientific-linux-users@
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Critical: firefox on SL7.x x86_64
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <20170320133309.22990.34596@slpackages.fnal.gov>

Synopsis: Critical: firefox security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2017:0558-1
Issue Date: 2017-03-17
CVE Numbers: CVE-2017-5428
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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-2017-5428)
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SL7
 x86_64
 firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
 firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.i686.rpm
 firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team