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Mageia 6: MGASA-2019-0267 Critical: Firefox Sandbox Escape

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Calendar Grey September 12, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2019-0267 resolves vulnerabilities in Firefox, such as memory safety issues and sandbox bypasses.
The updated packages fix several bugs and some security issues: Sandbox escape through Firefox Sync

Summary

The updated packages fix several bugs and some security issues:
Sandbox escape through Firefox Sync. (CVE-2019-9812)
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, and Firefox ESR 60.9. (CVE-2019-11740)
Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images. (CVE-2019-11742)
Cross-origin access to unload event attributes. (CVE-2019-11743)
XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML. (CVE-2019-11744)
Use-after-free while manipulating video. (CVE-2019-11746)
Use-after-free while extracting a key value in IndexedDB. (CVE-2019-11752)
Privilege escalation with Mozilla Maintenance Service in custom Firefox installation location. (CVE-2019-11753)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25359

- https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/60.9.0/releasenotes/?redirect_source=mozilla-org

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-27/

- https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/projects/nss/log/default/lib/ckfw/builtins/certdata.txt

- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.tech.nspr/RQtSKOF9rM0

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9812

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11740

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11742

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11743

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11744

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11746

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11752

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11753

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/firefox-60.9.0-1.mga6

- 6/core/firefox-l10n-60.9.0-1.mga6

- 6/core/rootcerts-20190820.00-1.mga6

- 6/core/nspr-4.22-1.mga6

- 6/core/nss-3.36.8-1.2.mga6

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Publication date: 12 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0267.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-9812, CVE-2019-11740, CVE-2019-11742, CVE-2019-11743, CVE-2019-11744, CVE-2019-11746, CVE-2019-11752, CVE-2019-11753

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