Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox RHSA-2017:2456

Description

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.3.0 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-2017-7779, CVE-2017-7798, CVE-2017-7800, CVE-2017-7801, CVE-2017-7753, CVE-2017-7784, CVE-2017-7785, CVE-2017-7786, CVE-2017-7787, CVE-2017-7792, CVE-2017-7802, CVE-2017-7807, CVE-2017-7809, CVE-2017-7791, CVE-2017-7803) Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Mozilla developers and community, Frederik Braun, Looben Yang, Nils, SkyLined, Oliver Wagner, Fraser Tweedale, Mathias Karlsson, Jose Mara Acua, and Rhys Enniks as the original reporters.

Affected Applications

Firefox

CVE References

CVE-2017-7753 CVE-2017-7779 CVE-2017-7784 CVE-2017-7785 CVE-2017-7786 CVE-2017-7787 CVE-2017-7791 CVE-2017-7792 CVE-2017-7798 CVE-2017-7800 CVE-2017-7801 CVE-2017-7802 CVE-2017-7803 CVE-2017-7807 CVE-2017-7809

Other References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2456