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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 RHSA-2020:5233-01 Important Firefox Update

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Calendar Grey November 30, 2020
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The latest Firefox security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux brings crucial improvements aimed at boosting the overall security and functionality of the browser.
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

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 78.5.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Parsing mismatches could confuse and bypass security sanitizer for chrome privileged code (CVE-2020-26951)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 83 and Firefox ESR 78.5 (CVE-2020-26968)
* Mozilla: Variable time processing of cross-origin images during drawImage calls (CVE-2020-16012)
* Mozilla: Fullscreen could be enabled without displaying the security UI (CVE-2020-26953)
* Mozilla: XSS through paste (manual and clipboard API) (CVE-2020-26956)
* Mozilla: Requests intercepted through ServiceWorkers lacked MIME type restrictions (CVE-2020-26958)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebRequestService (CVE-2020-26959)
* Mozilla: Potential use-after-free in uses of nsTArray (CVE-2020-26960)
* Mozilla: DoH did not filter IPv4 mapped IP Addresses (CVE-2020-26961)
* Mozilla: Software keyboards may have remembered typed passwords (CVE-2020-26965)
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 update red hat security fix important firefox web browser appstream

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16012 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26951 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26953 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26956 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26958 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26959 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26960 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26961 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26965 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26968 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1):
Source: firefox-78.5.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-78.5.0-1.el8_1.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-78.5.0-1.el8_1.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-78.5.0-1.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-78.5.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-78.5.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-78.5.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-78.5.0-1.el8_1.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-78.5.0-1.el8_1.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-78.5.0-1.el8_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-78.5.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-78.5.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-78.5.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5233-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5233
Issue date: 2020-11-30

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update red hat security fix important firefox web browser appstream

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1898731 - CVE-2020-26951 Mozilla: Parsing mismatches could confuse and bypass security sanitizer for chrome privileged code

1898732 - CVE-2020-16012 Mozilla: Variable time processing of cross-origin images during drawImage calls

1898733 - CVE-2020-26953 Mozilla: Fullscreen could be enabled without displaying the security UI

1898734 - CVE-2020-26956 Mozilla: XSS through paste (manual and clipboard API)

1898735 - CVE-2020-26958 Mozilla: Requests intercepted through ServiceWorkers lacked MIME type restrictions

1898736 - CVE-2020-26959 Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebRequestService

1898737 - CVE-2020-26960 Mozilla: Potential use-after-free in uses of nsTArray

1898738 - CVE-2020-26961 Mozilla: DoH did not filter IPv4 mapped IP Addresses

1898739 - CVE-2020-26965 Mozilla: Software keyboards may have remembered typed passwords

1898741 - CVE-2020-26968 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 83 and Firefox ESR 78.5

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