Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 17.0.6

Description

Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a series of use-after-free, out of bounds read, and invalid write problems rated as moderate to critical as security issues in shipped software. Some of these issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution. We would also like to thank Abhishek for reporting additional use-after-free flaws in dir=auto code introduced during Firefox development. These were fixed before general release.

Affected Applications

Firefox ESR

CVE References

CVE-2013-1677 CVE-2013-1676 CVE-2013-1680 CVE-2013-1681 CVE-2013-1679 CVE-2013-1678

Other References

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-48