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Firefox security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux fixes severe vulnerabilities in web data handling. Take immediate action!
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Summary

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 45.4.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Multiple 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-2016-5257, CVE-2016-5278, CVE-2016-5270, CVE-2016-5272, CVE-2016-5274, CVE-2016-5276, CVE-2016-5277, CVE-2016-5280, CVE-2016-5281, CVE-2016-5284, CVE-2016-5250, CVE-2016-5261)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Samuel Groß, Brian Carpenter, Mei Wang, Ryan Duff, Catalin Dumitru, Mozilla developers, Christoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, Philipp, Carsten Book, Abhishek Arya, Atte Kettunen, and Nils as the original reporters.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux firefox security issues web content processing

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5250 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5257 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5261 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5270 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5272 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5274 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5276 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5277 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5278 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5280 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5281 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5284 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/#firefoxesr45.4

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source: firefox-45.4.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: firefox-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: firefox-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-45.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source: firefox-45.4.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: firefox-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
ppc: firefox-45.4.0-1.el5_11.ppc64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.ppc64.rpm
s390x: firefox-45.4.0-1.el5_11.s390.rpm firefox-45.4.0-1.el5_11.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.s390.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-45.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: firefox-45.4.0-1.el6_8.src.rpm
i386: firefox-45.4.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: firefox-45.4.0-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: firefox-45.4.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1912-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1912.html
Issue date: 2016-09-21

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, RedHat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux firefox security issues web content processing

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

1361986 - CVE-2016-5261 Mozilla: Integer overflow and memory corruption in WebSocketChannel (MFSA 2016-86)

1361998 - CVE-2016-5250 Mozilla: Resource Timing API is storing resources sent by the previous page (MFSA 2016-86)

1377543 - CVE-2016-5257 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 45.4 (MFSA 2016-86)

1377549 - CVE-2016-5278 Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow in nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame (MFSA 2016-86)

1377552 - CVE-2016-5270 Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow in nsCaseTransformTextRunFactory::TransformString (MFSA 2016-86)

1377554 - CVE-2016-5272 Mozilla: Bad cast in nsImageGeometryMixin (MFSA 2016-86)

1377557 - CVE-2016-5276 Mozilla: Heap-use-after-free in mozilla::a11y::DocAccessible::ProcessInvalidationList (MFSA 2016-86)

1377558 - CVE-2016-5274 Mozilla: use-after-free in nsFrameManager::CaptureFrameState (MFSA 2016-86)

1377559 - CVE-2016-5277 Mozilla: Heap-use-after-free in nsRefreshDriver::Tick (MFSA 2016-86)

1377561 - CVE-2016-5280 Mozilla: Use-after-free in mozilla::nsTextNodeDirectionalityMap::RemoveElementFromMap (MFSA 2016-86)

1377563 - CVE-2016-5281 Mozilla: use-after-free in DOMSVGLength (MFSA 2016-86)

1377565 - CVE-2016-5284 Mozilla: Add-on update site certificate pin expiration (MFSA 2016-86)

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