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Mageia 7 MGASA-2020-0009 Moderate: mozjs60 Type Confusion Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revamped mozjs60 distributions address type mismatch and stability concerns in JavaScript. Urgent security notice issued by Mageia.
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: A type confusion vulnerability can occur when manipulating JavaScript objects due to issues in Array.pop

Summary

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities:
A type confusion vulnerability can occur when manipulating JavaScript objects due to issues in Array.pop. This can allow for an exploitable crash. We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.7.1, Firefox < 67.0.3, and Thunderbird < 60.7.2. (CVE-2019-11707)
Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes can result in the non-sandboxed parent process opening web content chosen by a compromised child process. When combined with additional vulnerabilities this could result in executing arbitrary code on the user's computer. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.7.2, Firefox < 67.0.4, and Thunderbird < 60.7.2. (CVE-2019-11708)
The mozjs60 package has been updated to version 60.9.0, fixing these issues and other bugs. The gjs package has been rebuilt against the updated mozjs60.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25910

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/OS4TDQ75LLRCFOAXMPHTQE6XCPJGZQ6X/

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/ZS2X4UWVWTNTNWOCAJYQO77GGSSI3H6K/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11707

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11708

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/mozjs60-60.9.0-1.mga7

- 7/core/gjs-1.56.2-1.1.mga7

Publication date: 05 Jan 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0009.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-11707, CVE-2019-11708

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