Security Alert (A16-03-04): Multiple Vulnerabilities in Firefox


 

Published on: 09 March 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, out-of-bounds read in ServiceWorkerManager, multiple use-after-free issues, heap-based buffer overflow and a number of problems in the Graphite 2 library. 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 45.0
  • Firefox ESR 38.x prior to version 38.7

Impact:

A successful attack could lead to application crash 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 45.0 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux
    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

  • Firefox ESR 38.7 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/advisories/mfsa2016-16
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-17
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-18
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-19
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-20
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-21
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-22
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-23
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-24
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-25
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-26
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-27
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-28
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-29
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-30
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-31
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-32
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-33
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-34
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-35
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-36
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-37
https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/45.0/releasenotes/
https://www.hkcert.org/my_url/en/alert/16030916
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2016/03/08/Mozilla-Releases-Security-Updates
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1950
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1952 (to CVE-2016-1968)
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1970 (to CVE-2016-1977)
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1979
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2790 (to CVE-2016-2802)



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