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Mageia: 2020-0161 Critical: Firefox Use-After-Free Threats

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Calendar Grey April 5, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
New Chrome updates fix critical vulnerabilities linked to race condition issues and use-after-free defects. Upgrade immediately!
Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities: Under certain conditions, when running the nsDocShell destructor, a race condition can cause a use-after-free (CVE-2020-6819...

Summary

Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities:
Under certain conditions, when running the nsDocShell destructor, a race condition can cause a use-after-free (CVE-2020-6819).
Under certain conditions, when handling a ReadableStream, a race condition can cause a use-after-free (CVE-2020-6820).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26433

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-11/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6819

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6820

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue race condition firefox use-after-free mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/firefox-68.6.1-1.mga7

- 7/core/firefox-l10n-68.6.1-1.mga7

Severity
critical
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Critical

Publication date: 05 Apr 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0161.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-6819, CVE-2020-6820

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Topics Covered

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