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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4220-1 firefox-esr -- security update

Date Reported:

08 Jun 2018

Affected Packages:

firefox-esr

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-6126.

More information:

Ivan Fratric discovered a buffer overflow in the Skia graphics library used by Firefox, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 52.8.1esr-1~deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 52.8.1esr-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