Mozilla security updates

Number: AV18-050
Date: 27 March 2018

Purpose

The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to a recently released Mozilla security update.

Assessment

Mozilla has released security updates to address the “Use-after-free in compositor” vulnerability VulnerabilityA flaw or weakness in the design or implementation of an information system or its environment that could be exploited to adversely affect an organization's assets or operations. in Firefox and Firefox ESR.

Affected Versions:

• Firefox versions prior to 59.0.2
• Firefox ESR versions prior to 52.7.3

CVE Reference: CVE-2018-5148

Suggested Action

CCIRC recommends that system administrators test and deploy the vendor-released updates to affected applications accordingly.

References:

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-10/
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5148