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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:5565 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-12-16
Updated:
2020-12-16

RHSA-2020:5565 - 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.

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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 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 78.6.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

  • chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8 (CVE-2020-16042)
  • Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL (CVE-2020-26971)
  • Mozilla: CSS Sanitizer performed incorrect sanitization (CVE-2020-26973)
  • Mozilla: Incorrect cast of StyleGenericFlexBasis resulted in a heap use-after-free (CVE-2020-26974)
  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6 (CVE-2020-35113)
  • Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage (CVE-2020-26978)
  • Mozilla: The proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs (CVE-2020-35111)

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 - 1904515 - CVE-2020-16042 chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8
  • BZ - 1908022 - CVE-2020-26971 Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL
  • BZ - 1908023 - CVE-2020-26973 Mozilla: CSS Sanitizer performed incorrect sanitization
  • BZ - 1908024 - CVE-2020-26974 Mozilla: Incorrect cast of StyleGenericFlexBasis resulted in a heap use-after-free
  • BZ - 1908025 - CVE-2020-26978 Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage
  • BZ - 1908027 - CVE-2020-35111 Mozilla: The proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs
  • BZ - 1908029 - CVE-2020-35113 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-16042
  • CVE-2020-26971
  • CVE-2020-26973
  • CVE-2020-26974
  • CVE-2020-26978
  • CVE-2020-35111
  • CVE-2020-35113

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 for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0

SRPM
firefox-78.6.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 0e018a7c524300f0ae3115cbe5ed3f4e885def6d30f56e8ebcad005c49b58a4b
ppc64le
firefox-78.6.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: afd8ca0ec859296f5bb21adcae1d45bc1efbf6d2a3860bf4056732d929c2c1a8
firefox-debuginfo-78.6.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 628af15b6344bf470f601dc41ef73d36b7645e5eceeefeea70b30adb1b11b518
firefox-debugsource-78.6.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 3d4d6c7f9f36987370c7fb3253d542ddf17435ee0daa33980357b5542b8fdb7f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0

SRPM
firefox-78.6.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 0e018a7c524300f0ae3115cbe5ed3f4e885def6d30f56e8ebcad005c49b58a4b
x86_64
firefox-78.6.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 40ea27baa771cbf5e97f8e27de14896e5fb171b32458afdd3c8ce43b0aa0359a
firefox-debuginfo-78.6.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2a5e00398a2eea0d0a5f3ef1a2c83ef48f376410a0a42edf0ed066777bb2771a
firefox-debugsource-78.6.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9e22440a0194cdbc1b1914d646ea5b382da1402976dfdfeebbf4bf6d1638e190

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

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