Issued:
2019-10-31
Updated:
2019-10-31

RHSA-2019:3281 - 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 68.2.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2 (CVE-2019-11764)
  • Mozilla: Use-after-free when creating index updates in IndexedDB (CVE-2019-11757)
  • Mozilla: Potentially exploitable crash due to 360 Total Security (CVE-2019-11758)
  • Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in HKDF output (CVE-2019-11759)
  • Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC networking (CVE-2019-11760)
  • Mozilla: Unintended access to a privileged JSONView object (CVE-2019-11761)
  • Mozilla: document.domain-based origin isolation has same-origin-property violation (CVE-2019-11762)
  • Mozilla: Incorrect HTML parsing results in XSS bypass technique (CVE-2019-11763)

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 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 - 1764438 - CVE-2019-11757 Mozilla: Use-after-free when creating index updates in IndexedDB
  • BZ - 1764439 - CVE-2019-11758 Mozilla: Potentially exploitable crash due to 360 Total Security
  • BZ - 1764440 - CVE-2019-11759 Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in HKDF output
  • BZ - 1764441 - CVE-2019-11760 Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC networking
  • BZ - 1764442 - CVE-2019-11761 Mozilla: Unintended access to a privileged JSONView object
  • BZ - 1764443 - CVE-2019-11762 Mozilla: document.domain-based origin isolation has same-origin-property violation
  • BZ - 1764444 - CVE-2019-11763 Mozilla: Incorrect HTML parsing results in XSS bypass technique
  • BZ - 1764446 - CVE-2019-11764 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: f3fd639ff7f47e02011cd671a3b94a6edc73ebfb3723233680c2d586fa549aea
x86_64
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: ad444e8ae67d13084d2488ee265fd686ea19bede8632346eda5f637ca159c190
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: dbe8fdefdf5d19e9b14f43a91eb04bcd2e5b5d74dd349cc4556bda0ded319bb4
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 5a0e375736672325ea28ca6b9ce1ccb91acf4f9b00d90565eb6c55c2b34a919b
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 494c6fa836acf1d2fe823e3a50490f82d5fd318045e121a50403593b6112fadd
i386
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: ad444e8ae67d13084d2488ee265fd686ea19bede8632346eda5f637ca159c190
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 5a0e375736672325ea28ca6b9ce1ccb91acf4f9b00d90565eb6c55c2b34a919b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: f3fd639ff7f47e02011cd671a3b94a6edc73ebfb3723233680c2d586fa549aea
x86_64
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: ad444e8ae67d13084d2488ee265fd686ea19bede8632346eda5f637ca159c190
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: dbe8fdefdf5d19e9b14f43a91eb04bcd2e5b5d74dd349cc4556bda0ded319bb4
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 5a0e375736672325ea28ca6b9ce1ccb91acf4f9b00d90565eb6c55c2b34a919b
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 494c6fa836acf1d2fe823e3a50490f82d5fd318045e121a50403593b6112fadd
i386
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: ad444e8ae67d13084d2488ee265fd686ea19bede8632346eda5f637ca159c190
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 5a0e375736672325ea28ca6b9ce1ccb91acf4f9b00d90565eb6c55c2b34a919b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: f3fd639ff7f47e02011cd671a3b94a6edc73ebfb3723233680c2d586fa549aea
x86_64
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: ad444e8ae67d13084d2488ee265fd686ea19bede8632346eda5f637ca159c190
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: dbe8fdefdf5d19e9b14f43a91eb04bcd2e5b5d74dd349cc4556bda0ded319bb4
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 5a0e375736672325ea28ca6b9ce1ccb91acf4f9b00d90565eb6c55c2b34a919b
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 494c6fa836acf1d2fe823e3a50490f82d5fd318045e121a50403593b6112fadd
i386
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: ad444e8ae67d13084d2488ee265fd686ea19bede8632346eda5f637ca159c190
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 5a0e375736672325ea28ca6b9ce1ccb91acf4f9b00d90565eb6c55c2b34a919b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: f3fd639ff7f47e02011cd671a3b94a6edc73ebfb3723233680c2d586fa549aea
s390x
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 7a635fac8f544a2c71779913b3a452bd68b52536a2c3da336ba169abb654d77a
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: e73c690745787795e48813d9f3aeb739043819f83905bbc59e1b0bebd974150e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: f3fd639ff7f47e02011cd671a3b94a6edc73ebfb3723233680c2d586fa549aea
ppc64
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: febe4c03fcb22cc16e2f0f8af6dd7455ed0bad4fed438e0ff7e523079ba2839d
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: de04a1f27354b1d835501af45dfb4f83061d4ed49eaf1fb96c9f37ba374c3db7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: f3fd639ff7f47e02011cd671a3b94a6edc73ebfb3723233680c2d586fa549aea
x86_64
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: ad444e8ae67d13084d2488ee265fd686ea19bede8632346eda5f637ca159c190
firefox-68.2.0-4.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: dbe8fdefdf5d19e9b14f43a91eb04bcd2e5b5d74dd349cc4556bda0ded319bb4
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 5a0e375736672325ea28ca6b9ce1ccb91acf4f9b00d90565eb6c55c2b34a919b
firefox-debuginfo-68.2.0-4.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 494c6fa836acf1d2fe823e3a50490f82d5fd318045e121a50403593b6112fadd

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