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RedHat: RHSA-2018:3831-01 Critical: Firefox Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2018
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An important patch has been released for Firefox on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Make sure to secure your system immediately.
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, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.4.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4 (CVE-2018-12405)
* Mozilla: Memory corruption in Angle (CVE-2018-17466)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element (CVE-2018-18492)
* Mozilla: Buffer overflow in accelerated 2D canvas with Skia (CVE-2018-18493)
* Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs (CVE-2018-18494)
* Mozilla: Integer overflow when calculating buffer sizes for images (CVE-2018-18498)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler, Diego Calleja, Andrew McCreight, Jon Coppeard, Natalia Csoregi, Nicolas B. Pierron, Tyson Smith, Nils, Atte Kettunen, James Lee of Kryptos Logic, and r as the original reporters.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow critical firefox web browser memory safety

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12405 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17466 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18492 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18493 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18494 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18498 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-30/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.src.rpm
i386: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
Source: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.src.rpm
x86_64: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.src.rpm
i386: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
ppc64: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.ppc64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
s390x: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.src.rpm
i386: firefox-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3831-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3831
Issue date: 2018-12-17

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 Red Hat buffer overflow critical firefox web browser memory safety

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) - x86_64

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1640102 - CVE-2018-17466 chromium-browser, firefox: Memory corruption in Angle

1658397 - CVE-2018-12405 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4

1658399 - CVE-2018-18492 Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element

1658400 - CVE-2018-18493 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in accelerated 2D canvas with Skia

1658401 - CVE-2018-18494 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs

1658402 - CVE-2018-18498 Mozilla: Integer overflow when calculating buffer sizes for images

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