RHSA-2021:3159 - Security Advisory

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 78.13.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Uninitialized memory in a canvas object could have led to memory corruption (CVE-2021-29980)
• Mozilla: Incorrect instruction reordering during JIT optimization (CVE-2021-29984)
• Mozilla: Race condition when resolving DNS names could have led to memory corruption (CVE-2021-29986)
• Mozilla: Memory corruption as a result of incorrect style treatment (CVE-2021-29988)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.13 (CVE-2021-29989)
• Mozilla: Use-after-free media channels (CVE-2021-29985)

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 - 1992417 - CVE-2021-29986 Mozilla: Race condition when resolving DNS names could have led to memory corruption
• BZ - 1992419 - CVE-2021-29988 Mozilla: Memory corruption as a result of incorrect style treatment
• BZ - 1992420 - CVE-2021-29984 Mozilla: Incorrect instruction reordering during JIT optimization
• BZ - 1992421 - CVE-2021-29980 Mozilla: Uninitialized memory in a canvas object could have led to memory corruption
• BZ - 1992422 - CVE-2021-29985 Mozilla: Use-after-free media channels
• BZ - 1992423 - CVE-2021-29989 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.13

CVEs

• CVE-2021-29980
• CVE-2021-29984
• CVE-2021-29985
• CVE-2021-29986
• CVE-2021-29988
• CVE-2021-29989

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important