Advisories » MGASA-2017-0418

Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 19 Nov 2017
Modification date: 19 Nov 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-7826 , CVE-2017-7828 , CVE-2017-7830

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-2017-7826, CVE-2017-7828, CVE-2017-7830).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22024
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-25/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3247
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7826
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7828
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7830

SRPMS

5/core

• rootcerts-20171025.00-1.mga5
• nss-3.28.6-1.1.mga5
• firefox-52.5.0-1.mga5
• firefox-l10n-52.5.0-1.mga5

6/core

• rootcerts-20171025.00-1.mga6
• nss-3.28.6-1.1.mga6
• firefox-52.5.0-1.mga6
• firefox-l10n-52.5.0-1.mga6