Security Alert (A15-11-01): Multiple Vulnerabilities in Firefox


 

Published on: 04 November 2015

  
  

Description:

Mozilla has published security advisories to address multiple vulnerabilities found in Firefox. These vulnerabilities are caused by memory safety bugs in the browser engine, buffer overflow or use-after-poison error. A remote attacker could entice a user to open a web page with specially crafted content to exploit the vulnerabilities.


Affected Systems:

  • Firefox prior to version 42
  • Firefox ESR 38.x prior to version 38.4

 

Impact:

A successful attack could lead to application crash, arbitrary code execution or information disclosure on an affected system.


Recommendation:

Mozilla has released new versions of the product to address the issues and they can be downloaded at the following URLs:

  • Firefox 42 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux
    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

  • Firefox ESR 38.4 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux
    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/

Users of affected systems should follow the recommendations provided by the product vendor and take immediate actions to mitigate the risk.


More Information:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2015-116/ (to mfsa2015-133)
https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/42.0/releasenotes/
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4513 (to CVE-2015-4515)
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4518
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7181 (to CVE-2015-7183)
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7185 (to CVE-2015-7196)



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