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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-0966-01 Critical: Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Urgent patch release for Firefox on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to tackle numerous vulnerabilities.
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 60.6.1 ESR. (BZ#1690308)
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 66 and Firefox ESR 60.6 (CVE-2019-9788)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing in-use DOM elements (CVE-2019-9790)
* Mozilla: Type inference is incorrect for constructors entered through on-stack replacement with IonMonkey (CVE-2019-9791)
* Mozilla: IonMonkey leaks JS_OPTIMIZED_OUT magic value to script (CVE-2019-9792)
* Mozilla: IonMonkey MArraySlice has incorrect alias information (CVE-2019-9810)
* Mozilla: Ionmonkey type confusion with __proto__ mutations (CVE-2019-9813)
* Mozilla: Improper bounds checks when Spectre mitigations are disabled (CVE-2019-9793)
* Mozilla: Type-confusion in IonMonkey JIT compiler (CVE-2019-9795)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free with SMIL animation controller (CVE-2019-9796)
* Mozilla: Proxy Auto-Configuration file can define localhost access to be proxied (CVE-2018-18506)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat update critical firefox

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18506 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9788 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9790 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9791 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9792 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9793 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9795 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9796 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9810 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9813 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: firefox-60.6.1-1.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-60.6.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.6.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-60.6.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-60.6.1-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.6.1-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-60.6.1-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-60.6.1-1.el8.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.6.1-1.el8.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-60.6.1-1.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-60.6.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-60.6.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-60.6.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0966-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0966
Issue date: 2019-05-07

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 issue Red Hat update critical firefox

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1690308 - update ff to ESR 60.6[ZStream Clone]

1690673 - CVE-2018-18506 Mozilla: Proxy Auto-Configuration file can define localhost access to be proxied

1690674 - CVE-2019-9788 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 66 and Firefox ESR 60.6

1690675 - CVE-2019-9790 Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing in-use DOM elements

1690676 - CVE-2019-9791 Mozilla: Type inference is incorrect for constructors entered through on-stack replacement with IonMonkey

1690677 - CVE-2019-9792 Mozilla: IonMonkey leaks JS_OPTIMIZED_OUT magic value to script

1690678 - CVE-2019-9793 Mozilla: Improper bounds checks when Spectre mitigations are disabled

1690680 - CVE-2019-9795 Mozilla: Type-confusion in IonMonkey JIT compiler

1690681 - CVE-2019-9796 Mozilla: Use-after-free with SMIL animation controller

1692181 - CVE-2019-9810 Mozilla: IonMonkey MArraySlice has incorrect alias information

1692182 - CVE-2019-9813 Mozilla: Ionmonkey type confusion with __proto__ mutations

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