Mageia 2021-0012: firefox security update
Summary
A malicious peer could have modified a COOKIE-ECHO chunk in a SCTP packet
in a way that potentially resulted in a use-after-free. We presume that with
enough effort it could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
(CVE-2020-16044).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28034
- - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-01/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16044
Resolution
MGASA-2021-0012 - Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 7/core/nss-3.60.1-1.mga7
- 7/core/firefox-78.6.1-1.mga7
- 7/core/firefox-l10n-78.6.1-1.mga7