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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2019-0219-01 Critical Firefox Update

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An update for firefox is now available for 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, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.5.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Use-after-free parsing HTML5 stream (CVE-2018-18500)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 65 and Firefox ESR 60.5 (CVE-2018-18501)
* Mozilla: Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages (CVE-2018-18505)
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 Yaniv Frank (SophosLabs), Alex Gaynor, Christoph Diehl, Steven Crane, Jason Kratzer, Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, and Jed Davis as the original reporters.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18500 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18501 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18505 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.5.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.5.0-2.el7.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.ppc64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.5.0-2.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.5.0-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.5.0-2.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.5.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7):
Source: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.5.0-2.el7.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.5.0-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.5.0-2.el7.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.5.0-2.el7.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0219-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0219
Issue date: 2019-01-30

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for 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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Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

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

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Bugs Fixed

1670631 - CVE-2018-18500 Mozilla: Use-after-free parsing HTML5 stream

1670632 - CVE-2018-18501 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 65 and Firefox ESR 60.5

1670633 - CVE-2018-18505 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages

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