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 60.1.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.9 (CVE-2018-5188)
  
• Mozilla: Buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element (CVE-2018-12359)
  
• Mozilla: Use-after-free using focus() (CVE-2018-12360)
  
• Mozilla: Media recorder segmentation fault when track type is changed during capture (CVE-2018-5156)
  
• Skia: Heap buffer overflow rasterizing paths in SVG (CVE-2018-6126)
  
• Mozilla: Integer overflow in SSSE3 scaler (CVE-2018-12362)
  
• Mozilla: Use-after-free when appending DOM nodes (CVE-2018-12363)
  
• Mozilla: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins (CVE-2018-12364)
  
• Mozilla: address bar username and password spoofing in reader mode (CVE-2017-7762)
  
• Mozilla: Compromised IPC child process can list local filenames (CVE-2018-12365)
  
• Mozilla: Invalid data handling during QCMS transformations (CVE-2018-12366)
  

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 Alex Gaynor, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, David Major, Jon Coppeard, Nicolas B. Pierron, Marcia Knous, Ronald Crane, Nils, F. Alonso (revskills), David Black, and OSS-Fuzz 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 - 1584035 - CVE-2018-6126 Skia: Heap buffer overflow rasterizing paths in SVG
• BZ - 1590493 - CVE-2017-7762 Mozilla: address bar username and password spoofing in reader mode
• BZ - 1595024 - CVE-2018-12359 Mozilla: Buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element
• BZ - 1595025 - CVE-2018-12360 Mozilla: Use-after-free using focus()
• BZ - 1595027 - CVE-2018-12362 Mozilla: Integer overflow in SSSE3 scaler
• BZ - 1595028 - CVE-2018-12363 Mozilla: Use-after-free when appending DOM nodes
• BZ - 1595029 - CVE-2018-12364 Mozilla: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins
• BZ - 1595030 - CVE-2018-12365 Mozilla: Compromised IPC child process can list local filenames
• BZ - 1595031 - CVE-2018-12366 Mozilla: Invalid data handling during QCMS transformations
• BZ - 1595037 - CVE-2018-5156 Mozilla: Media recorder segmentation fault when track type is changed during capture
• BZ - 1595040 - CVE-2018-5188 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.9

CVEs

• CVE-2017-7762
• CVE-2018-5156
• CVE-2018-5188
• CVE-2018-6126
• CVE-2018-12359
• CVE-2018-12360
• CVE-2018-12362
• CVE-2018-12363
• CVE-2018-12364
• CVE-2018-12365
• CVE-2018-12366

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: ad6f645502c2ddae53f3e01a29e936839378c2e6498c36685975495f48bb1fb6
x86_64
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce6e3053dfbf9cdc353ab7370af428ba97df1a3b30ef7224068da9dc2dc071be
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ce2a2f33e8fff5a155d44829c1da3e277f91bcdc82c94d885957bb4a244a6e1f
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce374cb8108354095fb6430368e2105a44bf68a22cbc419ec7e8db48e32dc0f9
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8da8ed534585d4ba8e8f2b97e2e39bd90dd9a999858d30765d1e3e02a378d82b
i386
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce6e3053dfbf9cdc353ab7370af428ba97df1a3b30ef7224068da9dc2dc071be
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce374cb8108354095fb6430368e2105a44bf68a22cbc419ec7e8db48e32dc0f9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: ad6f645502c2ddae53f3e01a29e936839378c2e6498c36685975495f48bb1fb6
x86_64
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce6e3053dfbf9cdc353ab7370af428ba97df1a3b30ef7224068da9dc2dc071be
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ce2a2f33e8fff5a155d44829c1da3e277f91bcdc82c94d885957bb4a244a6e1f
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce374cb8108354095fb6430368e2105a44bf68a22cbc419ec7e8db48e32dc0f9
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8da8ed534585d4ba8e8f2b97e2e39bd90dd9a999858d30765d1e3e02a378d82b
i386
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce6e3053dfbf9cdc353ab7370af428ba97df1a3b30ef7224068da9dc2dc071be
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce374cb8108354095fb6430368e2105a44bf68a22cbc419ec7e8db48e32dc0f9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: ad6f645502c2ddae53f3e01a29e936839378c2e6498c36685975495f48bb1fb6
x86_64
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce6e3053dfbf9cdc353ab7370af428ba97df1a3b30ef7224068da9dc2dc071be
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ce2a2f33e8fff5a155d44829c1da3e277f91bcdc82c94d885957bb4a244a6e1f
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce374cb8108354095fb6430368e2105a44bf68a22cbc419ec7e8db48e32dc0f9
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8da8ed534585d4ba8e8f2b97e2e39bd90dd9a999858d30765d1e3e02a378d82b
i386
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce6e3053dfbf9cdc353ab7370af428ba97df1a3b30ef7224068da9dc2dc071be
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce374cb8108354095fb6430368e2105a44bf68a22cbc419ec7e8db48e32dc0f9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: ad6f645502c2ddae53f3e01a29e936839378c2e6498c36685975495f48bb1fb6
s390x
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 5d8141a552a87514b3bbcdd67733219aa2f5e86662fd64f4fc5fc38ad30e832f
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: b8d4fbbeac3fee2dc7b8dc5562ff505c59cd818eeba6d4d3b36572f733eccc4c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: ad6f645502c2ddae53f3e01a29e936839378c2e6498c36685975495f48bb1fb6
ppc64
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 25798dd8be70ca8fccbc682ad1a218e1483eec192df421262a21bba5c8b238a3
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: fe3d824146ca449bc326d29b5d6f7942d089bf4d1c860f66ad589cbcb188ef8f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: ad6f645502c2ddae53f3e01a29e936839378c2e6498c36685975495f48bb1fb6
x86_64
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce6e3053dfbf9cdc353ab7370af428ba97df1a3b30ef7224068da9dc2dc071be
firefox-60.1.0-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ce2a2f33e8fff5a155d44829c1da3e277f91bcdc82c94d885957bb4a244a6e1f
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ce374cb8108354095fb6430368e2105a44bf68a22cbc419ec7e8db48e32dc0f9
firefox-debuginfo-60.1.0-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8da8ed534585d4ba8e8f2b97e2e39bd90dd9a999858d30765d1e3e02a378d82b