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 60.2.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 62 and Firefox ESR 60.2 (CVE-2018-12376)
• Mozilla: Use-after-free in driver timers (CVE-2018-12377)
• Mozilla: Use-after-free in IndexedDB (CVE-2018-12378)
• Mozilla: Proxy bypass using automount and autofs (CVE-2017-16541)
• Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malicious MAR file (CVE-2018-12379)

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, Boris Zbarsky, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, Jed Davis, Tyson Smith, Bogdan Tara, Karl Tomlinson, Mats Palmgren, Nika Layzell, Ted Campbell, Nils, Zhanjia Song, and Holger Fuhrmannek 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1510816 - CVE-2017-16541 Mozilla: Proxy bypass using automount and autofs
• BZ - 1625525 - CVE-2018-12376 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 62 and Firefox ESR 60.2
• BZ - 1625526 - CVE-2018-12377 Mozilla: Use-after-free in driver timers
• BZ - 1625527 - CVE-2018-12378 Mozilla: Use-after-free in IndexedDB
• BZ - 1625528 - CVE-2018-12379 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malicious MAR file

CVEs

• CVE-2017-16541
• CVE-2018-12376
• CVE-2018-12377
• CVE-2018-12378
• CVE-2018-12379
• CVE-2018-18499

References