Improper Input Validation Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <45.6.0esr-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-FIREFOXESR-1545918
- published 11 Jun 2018
- disclosed 11 Jun 2018
Introduced: 11 Jun 2018
CVE-2016-9901 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12
firefox-esr
to version 45.6.0esr-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr
package and not the firefox-esr
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:12
relevant fixed versions and status.
HTML tags received from the Pocket server will be processed without sanitization and any JavaScript code executed will be run in the "about:pocket-saved" (unprivileged) page, giving it access to Pocket's messaging API through HTML injection. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.6 and Firefox < 50.1.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9901
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9901
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-95/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320057
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2973.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94885
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037461
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9901