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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2826 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-07-06
Updated:
2020-07-06

RHSA-2020:2826 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 68.10.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Memory corruption due to missing sign-extension for ValueTags on ARM64 (CVE-2020-12417)
  • Mozilla: Information disclosure due to manipulated URL object (CVE-2020-12418)
  • Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsGlobalWindowInner (CVE-2020-12419)
  • Mozilla: Use-After-Free when trying to connect to a STUN server (CVE-2020-12420)
  • Mozilla: Add-On updates did not respect the same certificate trust rules as software updates (CVE-2020-12421)

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 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1853014 - CVE-2020-12417 Mozilla: Memory corruption due to missing sign-extension for ValueTags on ARM64
  • BZ - 1853015 - CVE-2020-12418 Mozilla: Information disclosure due to manipulated URL object
  • BZ - 1853016 - CVE-2020-12419 Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsGlobalWindowInner
  • BZ - 1853017 - CVE-2020-12420 Mozilla: Use-After-Free when trying to connect to a STUN server
  • BZ - 1853018 - CVE-2020-12421 Mozilla: Add-On updates did not respect the same certificate trust rules as software updates

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-12417
  • CVE-2020-12418
  • CVE-2020-12419
  • CVE-2020-12420
  • CVE-2020-12421

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: b5b87eaab3147dcbf0d63d0e885fe503768731769484ceaeadb51b1f64487b53
x86_64
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7288ef1238b9b47bf6d0a32ad93b00f3f36c2de15138c4fc3ad9277a1f231440
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e472bb46b790d7e47544499b808e6dc52648c0000df34e60792ff529ef01a684
firefox-debugsource-68.10.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9614a940c61ab6cfb85612a4130afc2703987b2bebbbe23cae9dd7f56a832958

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: b5b87eaab3147dcbf0d63d0e885fe503768731769484ceaeadb51b1f64487b53
s390x
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 8da10e65627ee6d99930ef32455b7567fe73b2c0373153e00b6753c6e543569f
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el8_1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: c07e1ae404e628c48fbc7555e0921df798db812d5873f2f7837fa93bcd6b446d
firefox-debugsource-68.10.0-1.el8_1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 83995509b3954bb1eea69804d796c59c9fe2b722b10ca620a4b134b3e5e2d138

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: b5b87eaab3147dcbf0d63d0e885fe503768731769484ceaeadb51b1f64487b53
ppc64le
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 759d4cf5bfc8a7b65da929d2f7e735ac3879d6b3e87455541c0018b5fcd767b3
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: d4fe2a34a7178cca3b869612b5f676a0702360417b516a36e7d25f12faa9a632
firefox-debugsource-68.10.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: a3c8d5bb1e82f4399d670e380e9a46cc6b17b622badb5e0026931b4dc191fdbb

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: b5b87eaab3147dcbf0d63d0e885fe503768731769484ceaeadb51b1f64487b53
aarch64
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 75c7c109f67458612ef5699785e300f16048a8d7e4061654640d757560493836
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el8_1.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 02ef03435e3c54ca49fc1a31db51348cbb18038a564c33a93064c70a5cd1cada
firefox-debugsource-68.10.0-1.el8_1.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 2b67f7d9a3d95b2f410b1826ef4f509a33fe9ee8f77839f6e8f8c7ac2e526d0b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: b5b87eaab3147dcbf0d63d0e885fe503768731769484ceaeadb51b1f64487b53
ppc64le
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 759d4cf5bfc8a7b65da929d2f7e735ac3879d6b3e87455541c0018b5fcd767b3
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: d4fe2a34a7178cca3b869612b5f676a0702360417b516a36e7d25f12faa9a632
firefox-debugsource-68.10.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: a3c8d5bb1e82f4399d670e380e9a46cc6b17b622badb5e0026931b4dc191fdbb

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: b5b87eaab3147dcbf0d63d0e885fe503768731769484ceaeadb51b1f64487b53
x86_64
firefox-68.10.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7288ef1238b9b47bf6d0a32ad93b00f3f36c2de15138c4fc3ad9277a1f231440
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e472bb46b790d7e47544499b808e6dc52648c0000df34e60792ff529ef01a684
firefox-debugsource-68.10.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9614a940c61ab6cfb85612a4130afc2703987b2bebbbe23cae9dd7f56a832958

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