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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2827 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-07-06
Updated:
2020-07-06

RHSA-2020:2827 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

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 Server 7

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: d365942f92712dd472bb981a6dcc9c8cb421eaf9ab2e9fbdb6af880fd29dee56
x86_64
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 1e16c3df32afb378f7ddcb57ea351a3256cb03796202d0bb838d386f611d2d64
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 718eb6ce180e88d897bd64a8eb03c333aef9533090a2890e4dd8b6afa5484ca7
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 82d2248d89f9c15ddcbf5a920a050fa7083bd3808dcbc6b3929c7bf2f835ff31
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8623d3416779e02ef976ccbc5fed75afef4d2774512ef024d87080374fa864a7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: d365942f92712dd472bb981a6dcc9c8cb421eaf9ab2e9fbdb6af880fd29dee56
x86_64
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 1e16c3df32afb378f7ddcb57ea351a3256cb03796202d0bb838d386f611d2d64
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 718eb6ce180e88d897bd64a8eb03c333aef9533090a2890e4dd8b6afa5484ca7
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 82d2248d89f9c15ddcbf5a920a050fa7083bd3808dcbc6b3929c7bf2f835ff31
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8623d3416779e02ef976ccbc5fed75afef4d2774512ef024d87080374fa864a7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: d365942f92712dd472bb981a6dcc9c8cb421eaf9ab2e9fbdb6af880fd29dee56
x86_64
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 1e16c3df32afb378f7ddcb57ea351a3256cb03796202d0bb838d386f611d2d64
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 718eb6ce180e88d897bd64a8eb03c333aef9533090a2890e4dd8b6afa5484ca7
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 82d2248d89f9c15ddcbf5a920a050fa7083bd3808dcbc6b3929c7bf2f835ff31
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8623d3416779e02ef976ccbc5fed75afef4d2774512ef024d87080374fa864a7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: d365942f92712dd472bb981a6dcc9c8cb421eaf9ab2e9fbdb6af880fd29dee56
s390x
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 784daf71bcf85727f5715cbe471cf2e29b8eafe78a44afaf4359195e1a69dce2
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: e29423b37e1cdbf0740afddf36b434069c7a82b7cb0ec24c3b7506469b507005

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: d365942f92712dd472bb981a6dcc9c8cb421eaf9ab2e9fbdb6af880fd29dee56
ppc64
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 333c5a698427006f4234719e0c702410bbc6e8e6f989d7107a9415ac0b442df2
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 68dcb079b6d09a7b232c841bc2c3751dd5ad6dc71100f1190fd1f125f07fe0ec

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: d365942f92712dd472bb981a6dcc9c8cb421eaf9ab2e9fbdb6af880fd29dee56
ppc64le
firefox-68.10.0-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 296c4e6b160457fff6f8edf12763b8781a23c5c31c993030cfbeb06b607455f4
firefox-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: facd1dd839638aee33a2c00ff2b8e09a2d2e48f5bbcf6114c3cb4679a879d351

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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