Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox RHSA-2017:3247

Description

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.5.0 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-2017-7826, CVE-2017-7828, CVE-2017-7830) Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler, David Keeler, Jon Coppeard, Julien Cristau, Jan de Mooij, Jason Kratzer, Philipp, Nicholas Nethercote, Oriol Brufau, Andr Bargull, Bob Clary, Jet Villegas, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Gary Kwong, Ryan VanderMeulen, Nils, and Jun Kokatsu as the original reporters.

Affected Applications

Firefox

CVE References

CVE-2017-7826 CVE-2017-7828 CVE-2017-7830

Other References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3247