Advisories » MGASA-2017-0023

Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 27 Jan 2017
Modification date: 27 Jan 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-5373 , CVE-2017-5375 , CVE-2017-5376 , CVE-2017-5378 , CVE-2017-5380 , CVE-2017-5383 , CVE-2017-5386 , CVE-2017-5390 , CVE-2017-5396

Description

Multiple 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-2017-5373, CVE-2017-5375, CVE-2017-5376,
CVE-2017-5378, CVE-2017-5380, CVE-2017-5383, CVE-2017-5386,
CVE-2017-5390, CVE-2017-5396).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20178
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-02/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0190.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5373
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5375
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5376
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5378
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5380
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5383
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5386
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5390
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5396

SRPMS

5/core

• firefox-45.7.0-1.mga5
• firefox-l10n-45.7.0-1.mga5