# MA-472.042015: MyCERT Advisory - Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox

**Date:** 24 Apr 2015  
**Source:** https://www.mycert.org.my/portal/advisory?id=MA-472.042015  
**Advisory ID:** MA-472.042015

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#### **1.0 Introduction** The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 37.0.2 to address a vulnerability that may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system.
**2.0 Impact**
The vulnerability impacting the software is listed below:
- **Memory corruption during failed plugin initialization –**
One of Mozilla developer reported that a race condition when initialization of a plugin fails led to a potentially exploitable use-after-free vulnerability.
**3.0 Affected Products**
- Firefox
**4.0 Recommendation**
MyCERT highly recommended users of these applications to upgrade to the latest version of the affected products. The following updates are available:
**4.1 Mozilla Firefox**
Advisories:
<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/>
Download:
<https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/>
Generally, MyCERT advises the users of this software to be updated with the latest security announcements by the vendor and follow best practice security policies to determine which updates should be applied.
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**5.0 References**
- [US-CERTMozilla Releases Security Update for Firefox](https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2015/04/21/Mozilla-Releases-Security-Update-Firefox)
- [Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-45](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-45/)