Issued:
2020-07-30
Updated:
2020-07-30

RHSA-2020:3253 - Security Advisory

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 68.11.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

  • chromium-browser: Use after free in ANGLE (CVE-2020-6463)
  • chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in WebRTC (CVE-2020-6514)
  • Mozilla: Potential leak of redirect targets when loading scripts in a worker (CVE-2020-15652)
  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 79 and Firefox ESR 68.11 (CVE-2020-15659)

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 - 1840893 - CVE-2020-6463 chromium-browser: Use after free in ANGLE
  • BZ - 1857349 - CVE-2020-6514 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in WebRTC
  • BZ - 1861570 - CVE-2020-15652 Mozilla: Potential leak of redirect targets when loading scripts in a worker
  • BZ - 1861572 - CVE-2020-15659 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 79 and Firefox ESR 68.11

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 891720d52fd57b3c25e2c449d120a8a8f2d3ce7427b4dd6709824b0a65f2d3fc
x86_64
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7dcf53f8b55b9e91b0cba8cfbaaa3001f31fda85ff8aadffb0b9b1c07c001858
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ebe7d17ede7483046ea29e7e3f6c3f3bfa80c9116213abea05bab628111c73a8
firefox-debuginfo-68.11.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3724543331e40e5102e8f0ab11421448dc622ecf0eb1b0f9dc713504aab69bc9
firefox-debuginfo-68.11.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9ea1eed69cabbd2c1256eba9749b2c208794f798e253027f0d4dc355fc68e73b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 891720d52fd57b3c25e2c449d120a8a8f2d3ce7427b4dd6709824b0a65f2d3fc
x86_64
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7dcf53f8b55b9e91b0cba8cfbaaa3001f31fda85ff8aadffb0b9b1c07c001858
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ebe7d17ede7483046ea29e7e3f6c3f3bfa80c9116213abea05bab628111c73a8
firefox-debuginfo-68.11.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3724543331e40e5102e8f0ab11421448dc622ecf0eb1b0f9dc713504aab69bc9
firefox-debuginfo-68.11.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9ea1eed69cabbd2c1256eba9749b2c208794f798e253027f0d4dc355fc68e73b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 891720d52fd57b3c25e2c449d120a8a8f2d3ce7427b4dd6709824b0a65f2d3fc
x86_64
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7dcf53f8b55b9e91b0cba8cfbaaa3001f31fda85ff8aadffb0b9b1c07c001858
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ebe7d17ede7483046ea29e7e3f6c3f3bfa80c9116213abea05bab628111c73a8
firefox-debuginfo-68.11.0-1.el7_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3724543331e40e5102e8f0ab11421448dc622ecf0eb1b0f9dc713504aab69bc9
firefox-debuginfo-68.11.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9ea1eed69cabbd2c1256eba9749b2c208794f798e253027f0d4dc355fc68e73b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7

SRPM
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 891720d52fd57b3c25e2c449d120a8a8f2d3ce7427b4dd6709824b0a65f2d3fc
s390x
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: a4afbef0080fadb9479ec375c123b016ecba3be6b91e9558070cb67045af46fe
firefox-debuginfo-68.11.0-1.el7_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: c3aea0ca761636d091a72dac6546a1f156abb73e242b982efdfc32829816583b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7

SRPM
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 891720d52fd57b3c25e2c449d120a8a8f2d3ce7427b4dd6709824b0a65f2d3fc
ppc64
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: f23a21f13b5dea682b075cd996fe3dfc50324df79cdcedbeca55135d36a5cda8
firefox-debuginfo-68.11.0-1.el7_8.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 0506f7a789ada77c5367798ba1287421cd2c256f05dec229743136d86ad95d4c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 891720d52fd57b3c25e2c449d120a8a8f2d3ce7427b4dd6709824b0a65f2d3fc
ppc64le
firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: efc47b30ef99634e703b35af720c558db250a4098d90e4f9e035191bc0474941
firefox-debuginfo-68.11.0-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: b2145f7fe7b86b6a7e8b83a94dd53f7035694d670b30bcbfecdd43b3a5e68e53

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