Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox RHSA-2016:1912

Description

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. This update upgrades Firefox to version 45.4.0 ESR. Security Fix(es): * Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2016-5257, CVE-2016-5278, CVE-2016-5270, CVE-2016-5272, CVE-2016-5274, CVE-2016-5276, CVE-2016-5277, CVE-2016-5280, CVE-2016-5281, CVE-2016-5284, CVE-2016-5250, CVE-2016-5261) Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Samuel Gro, Brian Carpenter, Mei Wang, Ryan Duff, Catalin Dumitru, Mozilla developers, Christoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, Philipp, Carsten Book, Abhishek Arya, Atte Kettunen, and Nils as the original reporters.

Affected Applications

Firefox

CVE References

CVE-2016-5250 CVE-2016-5257 CVE-2016-5261 CVE-2016-5270 CVE-2016-5272 CVE-2016-5274 CVE-2016-5276 CVE-2016-5277 CVE-2016-5278 CVE-2016-5280 CVE-2016-5281 CVE-2016-5284

Other References

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html