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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-5373): Firefox regression

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-5373): Firefox regression

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/24/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/28/2017
Modified
08/17/2018

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 50.1 and Firefox ESR 45.6. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.7, Firefox ESR < 45.7, and Firefox < 51.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox
  • ubuntu-upgrade-thunderbird

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