Issued:
2018-05-14
Updated:
2018-05-14

RHSA-2018:1414 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Critical: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.

This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.8.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 52.8 (CVE-2018-5150)
  • Mozilla: Backport critical security fixes in Skia (CVE-2018-5183)
  • Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths (CVE-2018-5154)
  • Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths (CVE-2018-5155)
  • Mozilla: Same-origin bypass of PDF Viewer to view protected PDF files (CVE-2018-5157)
  • Mozilla: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer (CVE-2018-5158)
  • Mozilla: Integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in Skia (CVE-2018-5159)
  • Mozilla: Lightweight themes can be installed without user interaction (CVE-2018-5168)
  • Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension (CVE-2018-5178)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Christoph Diehl, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Alex Gaynor, Ronald Crane, Julian Hector, Kannan Vijayan, Jason Kratzer, Mozilla Developers, Nils, Wladimir Palant, Ivan Fratric, and Root Object as the original reporters.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1576250 - CVE-2018-5150 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 52.8
  • BZ - 1576255 - CVE-2018-5154 Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths
  • BZ - 1576257 - CVE-2018-5155 Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths
  • BZ - 1576258 - CVE-2018-5157 Mozilla: Same-origin bypass of PDF Viewer to view protected PDF files
  • BZ - 1576259 - CVE-2018-5158 Mozilla: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer
  • BZ - 1576260 - CVE-2018-5159 Mozilla: Integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in Skia
  • BZ - 1576269 - CVE-2018-5168 Mozilla: Lightweight themes can be installed without user interaction
  • BZ - 1576278 - CVE-2018-5178 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension
  • BZ - 1576283 - CVE-2018-5183 Mozilla: Backport critical security fixes in Skia

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 25ea19d97f3cc2fc7740c8f1332626711dc81f56166cbecf4e99d602a11f2fb5
x86_64
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2c3cb9201234cb7c42431365e6f6854208a68f73dad32d9047df80ba38387521
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6abd482fca7cba06a93ac3a1137d3884d1ff1a8db7fe57c8a743feb8a7f7cc1b
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 34402ab6293ce23d5317dc608da4f27a574aa8b7f906cd8bab09f29b329f8aa2
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6e045a8f3f162367ef9a26abd80f80fb7324c2e2a53b05101d4cf44b150a4ff4
i386
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2c3cb9201234cb7c42431365e6f6854208a68f73dad32d9047df80ba38387521
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 34402ab6293ce23d5317dc608da4f27a574aa8b7f906cd8bab09f29b329f8aa2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 25ea19d97f3cc2fc7740c8f1332626711dc81f56166cbecf4e99d602a11f2fb5
x86_64
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2c3cb9201234cb7c42431365e6f6854208a68f73dad32d9047df80ba38387521
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6abd482fca7cba06a93ac3a1137d3884d1ff1a8db7fe57c8a743feb8a7f7cc1b
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 34402ab6293ce23d5317dc608da4f27a574aa8b7f906cd8bab09f29b329f8aa2
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6e045a8f3f162367ef9a26abd80f80fb7324c2e2a53b05101d4cf44b150a4ff4
i386
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2c3cb9201234cb7c42431365e6f6854208a68f73dad32d9047df80ba38387521
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 34402ab6293ce23d5317dc608da4f27a574aa8b7f906cd8bab09f29b329f8aa2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 25ea19d97f3cc2fc7740c8f1332626711dc81f56166cbecf4e99d602a11f2fb5
x86_64
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2c3cb9201234cb7c42431365e6f6854208a68f73dad32d9047df80ba38387521
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6abd482fca7cba06a93ac3a1137d3884d1ff1a8db7fe57c8a743feb8a7f7cc1b
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 34402ab6293ce23d5317dc608da4f27a574aa8b7f906cd8bab09f29b329f8aa2
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6e045a8f3f162367ef9a26abd80f80fb7324c2e2a53b05101d4cf44b150a4ff4
i386
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2c3cb9201234cb7c42431365e6f6854208a68f73dad32d9047df80ba38387521
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 34402ab6293ce23d5317dc608da4f27a574aa8b7f906cd8bab09f29b329f8aa2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 25ea19d97f3cc2fc7740c8f1332626711dc81f56166cbecf4e99d602a11f2fb5
s390x
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.s390.rpm SHA-256: f92f7dd47699370247612b5ab3636008cb2a8cfec30d22a62c57909acc3469e0
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 1676b354cd7a8adccb86b508feeb6f38ceb2e87ec59f619963cc17e98813f2a9
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.s390.rpm SHA-256: 7a63292eaccd86356a2956ec5c60c6bc2b46a5b313ef53027f835d9bc8187d83
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm SHA-256: a5e490fa5b16b2fa5a2649b3e7c6cb6d6ae890b6d4cd6d9a447e01488a661819

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 25ea19d97f3cc2fc7740c8f1332626711dc81f56166cbecf4e99d602a11f2fb5
ppc64
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.ppc.rpm SHA-256: c2dda955ddd59a7c7af2ffbf3679c31568b8e65e1d93066fd0d6417d62960496
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 51e819af430294c8f35d71deaefdee313ee724d39ee48a0a9b4d14bfeefd4c66
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.ppc.rpm SHA-256: e8b41cb543fce30973eaab54fbb7a3e30c9e5023c73a12a93639149dff1062e5
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 211b9d0085f807c6d748180ab3aee4468aeb336e3d4ce494886e113b719909b4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 25ea19d97f3cc2fc7740c8f1332626711dc81f56166cbecf4e99d602a11f2fb5
x86_64
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2c3cb9201234cb7c42431365e6f6854208a68f73dad32d9047df80ba38387521
firefox-52.8.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6abd482fca7cba06a93ac3a1137d3884d1ff1a8db7fe57c8a743feb8a7f7cc1b
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 34402ab6293ce23d5317dc608da4f27a574aa8b7f906cd8bab09f29b329f8aa2
firefox-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6e045a8f3f162367ef9a26abd80f80fb7324c2e2a53b05101d4cf44b150a4ff4

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