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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2017:1104-01 Critical Firefox Update

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Calendar Grey April 20, 2017
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Mozilla Firefox security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux labeled as Severe addresses various vulnerabilities enhancing protection.
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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 52.1.0 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-2017-5429, CVE-2017-5432, CVE-2017-5433, CVE-2017-5434, CVE-2017-5435, CVE-2017-5436, CVE-2017-5437, CVE-2017-5438, CVE-2017-5439, CVE-2017-5440, CVE-2017-5441, CVE-2017-5442, CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5445, CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5448, CVE-2017-5449, CVE-2017-5459, CVE-2017-5460, CVE-2017-5464, CVE-2017-5465, CVE-2017-5469)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Mozilla developers and community, Nils, Holger Fuhrmannek, Atte Kettunen, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, Nicolas Grégoire, Chamal De Silva, Chun Han Hsiao, Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero, Anonymous working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, and Petr Cerny as the original reporters.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5429 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5432 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5433 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5434 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5435 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5436 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5437 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5438 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5439 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5440 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5441 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5442 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5443 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5444 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5445 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5446 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5447 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5448 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5449 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5459 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5460 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5464 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5465 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5469 Read the Full Advisory

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.1.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.1.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.1.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
Source: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.src.rpm
x86_64: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.1.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.1.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.1.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm
ppc64: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.ppc64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.1.0-2.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
s390x: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.1.0-2.el6_9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.1.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
ppc64: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.ppc.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.1.0-2.el6_9.ppc.rpm
s390x: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.s390.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.1.0-2.el6_9.s390.rpm
x86_64: firefox-52.1.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm

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Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:1104-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1104
Issue date: 2017-04-20

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.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 critical issue software update Red Hat Enterprise Linux Firefox update

Relevant Releases Architectures

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 Optional (v. 6) - ppc64, s390x, x86_64

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1443298 - CVE-2017-5442 Mozilla: Use-after-free during style changes (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

1443299 - CVE-2017-5443 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write during BinHex decoding (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

1443301 - CVE-2017-5429 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 53, Firefox ESR 45.9, and Firefox ESR 52.1 (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

1443303 - CVE-2017-5464 Mozilla: Memory corruption with accessibility and DOM manipulation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

1443304 - CVE-2017-5465 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read in ConvolvePixel (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

1443308 - CVE-2017-5460 Mozilla: Use-after-free in frame selection (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

1443310 - CVE-2017-5448 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write in ClearKeyDecryptor (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

1443311 - CVE-2017-5449 Mozilla: Crash during bidirectional unicode manipulation with animation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

1443312 - CVE-2017-5446 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read when HTTP/2 DATA frames are sent with incorrect data (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

1443313 - CVE-2017-5447 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read during glyph processing (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

1443314 - CVE-2017-5444 Mozilla: Buffer overflow while parsing application/http-index-format content (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

1443315 - CVE-2017-5445 Mozilla: Uninitialized values used while parsing application/http-index-format content (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

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