Mozilla has published security advisories to address multiple vulnerabilities found in Firefox. These vulnerabilities are caused by memory safety bugs in the browser engine, memory corruption or buffer/integer overflow. A remote attacker could entice a user to open a web page with specially crafted content, malicious zip file or MP4 video file to exploit the vulnerabilities.
A successful attack could lead to application crash or arbitrary code execution on an affected system.
Mozilla has released new versions of the product to address the issues and they can be downloaded at the following URLs:
Users of affected systems should follow the recommendations provided by the product vendor and take immediate actions to mitigate the risk.
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2015-150/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-01/ (to mfsa2016-12)
https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/44.0/releasenotes/
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2016/01/26/Mozilla-Releases-Security-Updates
https://www.hkcert.org/my_url/en/alert/16012701
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7208
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7575
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1930
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1931
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1933
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1935
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1937 (to CVE-2016-1948)