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firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox thunderbird CVE #(s):CVE-2016-5290 CVE-2016-5291 CVE-2016-5296 CVE-2016-5297 CVE-2016-9064 CVE-2016-9066
Created:November 16, 2016 Updated:December 15, 2016
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

* 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-2016-5296, CVE-2016-5297, CVE-2016-9066, CVE-2016-5291, CVE-2016-5290)

* A flaw was found in the way Add-on update process was handled by Firefox. A Man-in-the-Middle attacker could use this flaw to install a malicious signed add-on update. (CVE-2016-9064)

Alerts:
Oracle ELSA-2016-2780 firefox 2016-11-16
Oracle ELSA-2016-2780 firefox 2016-11-16
Mageia MGASA-2016-0379 nss, firefox 2016-11-17
Fedora FEDORA-2016-5bf1a34211 firefox 2016-11-17
Debian DSA-3716-1 firefox-esr 2016-11-16
Arch Linux ASA-201611-16 firefox 2016-11-16
Red Hat RHSA-2016:2780-01 firefox 2016-11-16
Gentoo 201701-15 firefox thunderbird 2017-01-04
Gentoo 201701-15 firefox 2017-01-03
Debian-LTS DLA-752-1 icedove 2016-12-17
Scientific Linux SLSA-2016:2825-1 thunderbird 2016-12-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2016:3105-1 firefox, nss 2016-12-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2016:3080-1 firefox, nss 2016-12-10
Debian DSA-3730-1 icedove 2016-12-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2016:3014-1 firefox, nss 2016-12-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:3019-1 thunderbird 2016-12-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:3011-1 firefox thunderbird nss 2016-12-05
Mageia MGASA-2016-0409 thunderbird 2016-12-05
Debian-LTS DLA-730-1 firefox-esr 2016-12-01
CentOS CESA-2016:2825 thunderbird 2016-12-01
CentOS CESA-2016:2825 thunderbird 2016-12-01
Ubuntu USN-3141-1 thunderbird 2016-12-01
Oracle ELSA-2016-2825 thunderbird 2016-11-29
Oracle ELSA-2016-2825 thunderbird 2016-11-29
Red Hat RHSA-2016:2825-01 thunderbird 2016-11-29
Scientific Linux SLSA-2016:2780-1 firefox 2016-11-21
Ubuntu USN-3124-1 firefox 2016-11-19
Slackware SSA:2016-323-01 firefox 2016-11-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:2861-1 firefox, nss 2016-11-18
Fedora FEDORA-2016-e39b7c826b firefox 2016-11-20
Fedora FEDORA-2016-05108f6054 firefox 2016-11-19
Fedora FEDORA-2016-946a184222 firefox 2016-11-19
CentOS CESA-2016:2780 firefox 2016-11-19
CentOS CESA-2016:2780 firefox 2016-11-19
Oracle ELSA-2016-2780 firefox 2016-11-16

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