- Issued:
- 2020-01-30
- Updated:
- 2020-01-30
RHSA-2020:0295 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Critical: firefox security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Critical
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
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 68.4.1 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
- Mozilla: IonMonkey type confusion with StoreElementHole and FallibleStoreElement (CVE-2019-17026)
- Mozilla: Use-after-free in worker destruction (CVE-2019-17008)
- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3 (CVE-2019-17012)
- Mozilla: Bypass of @namespace CSS sanitization during pasting (CVE-2019-17016)
- Mozilla: Type Confusion in XPCVariant.cpp (CVE-2019-17017)
- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.4 (CVE-2019-17024)
- Mozilla: Buffer overflow in plain text serializer (CVE-2019-17005)
- Mozilla: Use-after-free when performing device orientation checks (CVE-2019-17010)
- Mozilla: Use-after-free when retrieving a document in antitracking (CVE-2019-17011)
- Mozilla: CSS sanitization does not escape HTML tags (CVE-2019-17022)
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 for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1779431 - CVE-2019-17008 Mozilla: Use-after-free in worker destruction
- BZ - 1779434 - CVE-2019-17010 Mozilla: Use-after-free when performing device orientation checks
- BZ - 1779435 - CVE-2019-17005 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in plain text serializer
- BZ - 1779436 - CVE-2019-17011 Mozilla: Use-after-free when retrieving a document in antitracking
- BZ - 1779437 - CVE-2019-17012 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3
- BZ - 1788723 - CVE-2019-17016 Mozilla: Bypass of @namespace CSS sanitization during pasting
- BZ - 1788724 - CVE-2019-17017 Mozilla: Type Confusion in XPCVariant.cpp
- BZ - 1788726 - CVE-2019-17022 Mozilla: CSS sanitization does not escape HTML tags
- BZ - 1788727 - CVE-2019-17024 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.4
- BZ - 1789214 - CVE-2019-17026 Mozilla: IonMonkey type confusion with StoreElementHole and FallibleStoreElement
CVEs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0
SRPM | |
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firefox-68.4.1-1.el8_0.src.rpm | SHA-256: 7da825ab07487df01d8f3794e1df359cbbb21c7727c3f18a9ee8ac6e823cb176 |
ppc64le | |
firefox-68.4.1-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: 46506487bbb609d834ed82e1eac7af542e4b3633f76c18f3cdd08fecd497a204 |
firefox-debuginfo-68.4.1-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: 3dd86e13cd8f4ffc492c1dce02c65d89912ebc60a058135efb3daf9dd763ea50 |
firefox-debugsource-68.4.1-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: 68124f5cc74c51988d98cdde6d5261c20e16d84415ffbfb972fd0dc62a191c88 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0
SRPM | |
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firefox-68.4.1-1.el8_0.src.rpm | SHA-256: 7da825ab07487df01d8f3794e1df359cbbb21c7727c3f18a9ee8ac6e823cb176 |
x86_64 | |
firefox-68.4.1-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 93a2da8ef72d4a8a6977894d12f26947fbcbebf09828c2e22b41b94e184c0433 |
firefox-debuginfo-68.4.1-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 96e731575ef3f251441542350b96eb94c7d52e02a65fc778eda5d1d7525c3133 |
firefox-debugsource-68.4.1-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 146128852ac65384d69ff4a0f9ca979f4c8f982d1b144130fc4ac5c95d76ed28 |
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