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Red Hat: RHSA-2015:1834-02 Critical: Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2015
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New Firefox updates released to address urgent security vulnerabilities affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Upgrading is advised.
Updated firefox packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2015-4500, CVE-2015-4506, CVE-2015-4509, CVE-2015-4511, CVE-2015-4517, CVE-2015-4521, CVE-2015-4522, CVE-2015-7174, CVE-2015-7175, CVE-2015-7176, CVE-2015-7177, CVE-2015-7180)
Two information leak flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to disclose sensitive information or, in certain cases, crash. (CVE-2015-4519, CVE-2015-4520)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Khalil Zhani, Atte Kettunen, Ronald Crane, Mario Gomes, and Ehsan Akhgari as the original reporters of these issues.
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 38.3.0 ESR, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4500 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4506 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4509 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4511 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4517 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4519 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4520 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4521 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4522 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7174 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7175 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7176 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7177 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7180 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/#firefoxesr38.3

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source: firefox-38.3.0-2.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: firefox-38.3.0-2.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: firefox-38.3.0-2.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-38.3.0-2.el5_11.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source: firefox-38.3.0-2.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: firefox-38.3.0-2.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el5_11.i386.rpm
ppc: firefox-38.3.0-2.el5_11.ppc64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el5_11.ppc64.rpm
s390x: firefox-38.3.0-2.el5_11.s390.rpm firefox-38.3.0-2.el5_11.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el5_11.s390.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el5_11.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-38.3.0-2.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-38.3.0-2.el5_11.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: firefox-38.3.0-2.el6_7.src.rpm
i386: firefox-38.3.0-2.el6_7.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el6_7.i686.rpm
x86_64: firefox-38.3.0-2.el6_7.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: firefox-38.3.0-2.el6_7.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-38.3.0-2.el6_7.i686.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:1834-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1834.html
Issue date: 2015-09-22
Updated on: 2015-09-24

Topic

Updated firefox packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical securityimpact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which givedetailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from theCVE links in the References section.[Updated 25 August 2014]This erratum previously included an incorrect list of fixed issues.The issue list has been updated to reflect the CVEs that were fixed in thisupdate. The firefox packages provided by this advisory have not beenmodified in any way.

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Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1265186 - CVE-2015-4500 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2015-96)

1265192 - CVE-2015-4509 Mozilla: Use-after-free while manipulating HTML media content (MFSA 2015-106)

1265617 - CVE-2015-4506 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in libvpx while parsing vp9 format video (MFSA 2015-101)

1265630 - CVE-2015-4511 Mozilla: Buffer overflow while decoding WebM video (MFSA 2015-105)

1265778 - CVE-2015-4519 Mozilla: Dragging and dropping images exposes final URL after redirects (MFSA 2015-110)

1265781 - CVE-2015-4520 Mozilla: Errors in the handling of CORS preflight request headers (MFSA 2015-111)

1265784 - CVE-2015-4517 CVE-2015-4521 CVE-2015-4522 CVE-2015-7174 CVE-2015-7175 CVE-2015-7176 CVE-2015-7177 CVE-2015-7180 Mozilla: Vulnerabilities found through code inspection (MFSA 2015-112)

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