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Gentoo: GLSA-201911-07 Normal: Mozilla Firefox Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2019
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo users must promptly update Chromium in light of critical vulnerabilities that could allow unauthorized code execution.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo security issue software update code execution Mozilla Firefox normal severity

Resolution

All Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-68.2.0"
All Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-bin-68.2.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2019-11740 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11740 [ 2 ] CVE-2019-11742 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11742 [ 3 ] CVE-2019-11743 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11743 [ 4 ] CVE-2019-11744 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11744 [ 5 ] CVE-2019-11746 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11746 [ 6 ] CVE-2019-11752 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11752 [ 7 ] CVE-2019-9812 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9812

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201911-07
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: November 25, 2019
Bugs: #693442, #698512
ID: 201911-07

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo security issue software update code execution Mozilla Firefox normal severity

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Background

Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/firefox < 68.2.0 >= 68.2.0 2 www-client/firefox-bin < 68.2.0 >= 68.2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages

Impact

===== Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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