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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4143-1 firefox-esr -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Mar 2018

Affected Packages:

firefox-esr

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-5146, CVE-2018-5147.

More information:

Richard Zhu and Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that an out-of-bounds memory write when playing Vorbis media files could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 52.7.2esr-1~deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 52.7.2esr-1~deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your firefox-esr packages.

For the detailed security status of firefox-esr please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/firefox-esr