Security Alert (A16-08-01): Multiple Vulnerabilities in Firefox


 

Published on: 03 August 2016

  
  

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, stack buffer underflow, use-after-free error, integer overflow, and type confusion flaw, etc. A remote attacker could entice a user to open a web page with specially crafted content or open a malformed video file to exploit the vulnerabilities.
 

Affected Systems:

  • Firefox prior to version 48.
  • Firefox ESR prior to version 45.3 

 

Impact:

A successful attack could lead to application crash, information disclosure, or arbitrary code execution 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 48.0 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux
    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

  • Firefox ESR 45.3 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/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-62/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-63/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-64/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-65/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-66/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-67/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-68/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-69/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-70/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-71/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-72/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-73/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-74/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-75/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-76/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-77/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-78/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-79/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-80/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-81/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-82/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-83/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-84/
https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/48.0/releasenotes/
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0718
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2830
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2835 (to CVE-2016-2839)
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5250 (to CVE-2016-5255)
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5258 (to CVE-2016-5268) 



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