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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Urgent Firefox Security Patch RHSA-2019-2663-01

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Calendar Grey September 4, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important security patch released for Firefox on CentOS 8, resolving several vulnerabilities. Update immediately!
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 68.1.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Sandbox escape through Firefox Sync (CVE-2019-9812)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69 and Firefox ESR 68.1 (CVE-2019-11735)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, and Firefox ESR 60.9 (CVE-2019-11740)
* Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images (CVE-2019-11742)
* Mozilla: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML (CVE-2019-11744)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free while manipulating video (CVE-2019-11746)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free while extracting a key value in IndexedDB (CVE-2019-11752)
* Mozilla: Cross-origin access to unload event attributes (CVE-2019-11743)
* Mozilla: Persistence of WebRTC permissions in a third party context (CVE-2019-11748)
* Mozilla: Camera information available without prompting using getUserMedia (CVE-2019-11749)
* Mozilla: Type confusion in Spidermonkey (CVE-2019-11750)
* Mozilla: Content security policy bypass through hash-based sources in directives (CVE-2019-11738)
* Mozilla: 'Forget about this site' removes sites from pre-loaded HSTS list (CVE-2019-11747)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical firefox red hat enterprise linux memory safety sandbox escape

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9812 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11735 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11738 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11740 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11742 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11743 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11744 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11746 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11747 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11748 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11749 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11750 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11752 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-26/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: firefox-68.1.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-68.1.0-1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-68.1.0-1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-68.1.0-1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-68.1.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-68.1.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-68.1.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-68.1.0-1.el8_0.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-68.1.0-1.el8_0.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-68.1.0-1.el8_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-68.1.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-68.1.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-68.1.0-1.el8_0.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-2019:2663-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2663
Issue date: 2019-09-04

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical firefox red hat enterprise linux memory safety sandbox escape

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1748652 - CVE-2019-11740 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, and Firefox ESR 60.9

1748653 - CVE-2019-11742 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images

1748654 - CVE-2019-11743 Mozilla: Cross-origin access to unload event attributes

1748655 - CVE-2019-11744 Mozilla: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML

1748656 - CVE-2019-11746 Mozilla: Use-after-free while manipulating video

1748657 - CVE-2019-11752 Mozilla: Use-after-free while extracting a key value in IndexedDB

1748660 - CVE-2019-9812 Mozilla: Sandbox escape through Firefox Sync

1748661 - CVE-2019-11735 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69 and Firefox ESR 68.1

1748663 - CVE-2019-11738 Mozilla: Content security policy bypass through hash-based sources in directives

1748664 - CVE-2019-11747 Mozilla: 'Forget about this site' removes sites from pre-loaded HSTS list

1748665 - CVE-2019-11748 Mozilla: Persistence of WebRTC permissions in a third party context

1748666 - CVE-2019-11749 Mozilla: Camera information available without prompting using getUserMedia

1748667 - CVE-2019-11750 Mozilla: Type confusion in Spidermonkey

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