Synopsis

Critical: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 60.7.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 67 and Firefox ESR 60.7 (CVE-2019-9800)
  
• Mozilla: Cross-origin theft of images with createImageBitmap (CVE-2019-9797)
  
• Mozilla: Type confusion with object groups and UnboxedObjects (CVE-2019-9816)
  
• Mozilla: Stealing of cross-domain images using canvas (CVE-2019-9817)
  
• Mozilla: Compartment mismatch with fetch API (CVE-2019-9819)
  
• Mozilla: Use-after-free of ChromeEventHandler by DocShell (CVE-2019-9820)
  
• Mozilla: Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest (CVE-2019-11691)
  
• Mozilla: Use-after-free removing listeners in the event listener manager (CVE-2019-11692)
  
• Mozilla: Buffer overflow in WebGL bufferdata on Linux (CVE-2019-11693)
  
• mozilla: Cross-origin theft of images with ImageBitmapRenderingContext (CVE-2018-18511)
  
• chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in Skia (CVE-2019-5798)
  
• Mozilla: Theft of user history data through drag and drop of hyperlinks to and from bookmarks (CVE-2019-11698)
  
• libpng: use-after-free in png_image_free in png.c (CVE-2019-7317)
  

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

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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1672409 - CVE-2019-7317 libpng: use-after-free in png_image_free in png.c
• BZ - 1676997 - CVE-2018-18511 mozilla: Cross-origin theft of images with ImageBitmapRenderingContext
• BZ - 1688200 - CVE-2019-5798 chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in Skia
• BZ - 1712617 - CVE-2019-11691 Mozilla: Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest
• BZ - 1712618 - CVE-2019-11692 Mozilla: Use-after-free removing listeners in the event listener manager
• BZ - 1712619 - CVE-2019-11693 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in WebGL bufferdata on Linux
• BZ - 1712621 - CVE-2019-11698 Mozilla: Theft of user history data through drag and drop of hyperlinks to and from bookmarks
• BZ - 1712622 - CVE-2019-9797 Mozilla: Cross-origin theft of images with createImageBitmap
• BZ - 1712623 - CVE-2019-9800 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 67 and Firefox ESR 60.7
• BZ - 1712625 - CVE-2019-9816 Mozilla: Type confusion with object groups and UnboxedObjects
• BZ - 1712626 - CVE-2019-9817 Mozilla: Stealing of cross-domain images using canvas
• BZ - 1712628 - CVE-2019-9819 Mozilla: Compartment mismatch with fetch API
• BZ - 1712629 - CVE-2019-9820 Mozilla: Use-after-free of ChromeEventHandler by DocShell

CVEs

• CVE-2018-18511
• CVE-2019-5798
• CVE-2019-7317
• CVE-2019-9797
• CVE-2019-9800
• CVE-2019-9816
• CVE-2019-9817
• CVE-2019-9819
• CVE-2019-9820
• CVE-2019-11691
• CVE-2019-11692
• CVE-2019-11693
• CVE-2019-11698

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-14/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8

SRPM
firefox-60.7.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm	SHA-256: c96d0a47a69610ee321087744ab8dbc4826769ef3d1ca4ee23f0451720979da4
x86_64
firefox-60.7.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 27ad3ab3b67076108fe409f67a742951bb082c3674761618e42d2a6b8fd4564b
firefox-debuginfo-60.7.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 43c728acc8003ba7de95cdf037259cb97a56cfb92786eaaf5821754c8cf16c83
firefox-debugsource-60.7.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: a2d7fa4cbe18e0e7cb4da78e8aab8b21668425e916c0fde591aa998a0a522952

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8

SRPM
firefox-60.7.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm	SHA-256: c96d0a47a69610ee321087744ab8dbc4826769ef3d1ca4ee23f0451720979da4
s390x
firefox-60.7.0-1.el8_0.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: c5f019e8f48bd7ae682466ddc4370bfcc2ea86bb134b2dd49ec824258884d148
firefox-debuginfo-60.7.0-1.el8_0.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: b9cdf89cdd0de6712086d7f66802f977ea98bddc75b6354bae09d88f8741f241
firefox-debugsource-60.7.0-1.el8_0.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: c0e09e3787b7f0dc20db4c9d691526051cc0e810cfd8f472afdbb029f175f07a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8

SRPM
firefox-60.7.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm	SHA-256: c96d0a47a69610ee321087744ab8dbc4826769ef3d1ca4ee23f0451720979da4
ppc64le
firefox-60.7.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm	SHA-256: 41f08d985aa196a5591f1524cefe210f236be3b3528fa48ddda1385a6fc45ad2
firefox-debuginfo-60.7.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm	SHA-256: 7b49533b11e7d0ccb59a4bbc24502f0a02c7467ceca3d490c85a36386a7c2122
firefox-debugsource-60.7.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm	SHA-256: 789543550ea7dfc4c524bffcaf5baa183bcd0d8349fb2e2fec7b63157fdd8e12

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8

SRPM
firefox-60.7.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm	SHA-256: c96d0a47a69610ee321087744ab8dbc4826769ef3d1ca4ee23f0451720979da4
aarch64
firefox-60.7.0-1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm	SHA-256: 643171a160a6e324146c229729e02b4a8cd234ebd1c574f835b4052b8f145af8
firefox-debuginfo-60.7.0-1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm	SHA-256: 945eb727005ec475b304576f7af106f7dc2d4897b3786fa0de8c43448814c1f4
firefox-debugsource-60.7.0-1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm	SHA-256: 37cdd09f1823ba6cedb51a7550c8709f557046a5dad1c0f3ff2256b641bbc661