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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1: RHSA-2021:0991 Critical: Firefox Security Fix

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Calendar Grey March 25, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important patch released for Firefox on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to fix significant security vulnerabilities. Please update immediately.
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 78.9.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Texture upload into an unbound backing buffer resulted in an out-of-bound read (CVE-2021-23981)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 87 and Firefox ESR 78.9 (CVE-2021-23987)
* Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage (CVE-2021-23982)
* Mozilla: Malicious extensions could have spoofed popup information (CVE-2021-23984)
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 critical software update Red Hat Enterprise Linux firefox

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23981 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23982 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23984 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23987 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1):
Source: firefox-78.9.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-78.9.0-1.el8_1.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-78.9.0-1.el8_1.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-78.9.0-1.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-78.9.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-78.9.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-78.9.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-78.9.0-1.el8_1.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-78.9.0-1.el8_1.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-78.9.0-1.el8_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-78.9.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-78.9.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-78.9.0-1.el8_1.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-2021:0991-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0991
Issue date: 2021-03-25

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 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 critical software update Red Hat Enterprise Linux firefox

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1942783 - CVE-2021-23981 Mozilla: Texture upload into an unbound backing buffer resulted in an out-of-bound read

1942785 - CVE-2021-23982 Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage

1942786 - CVE-2021-23984 Mozilla: Malicious extensions could have spoofed popup information

1942787 - CVE-2021-23987 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 87 and Firefox ESR 78.9

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