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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 impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Critical: firefox security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0558-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0558.html Issue date: 2017-03-17 CVE Names: CVE-2017-5428 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: 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 impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. 2. 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) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64 3. Description: Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. Security Fix(es): * A flaw was found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2017-5428) Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Chaitin Security Research Lab via Trend Micro's Zero DayInitiative as the original reporters. 4. 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. 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1433202 - CVE-2017-5428 Mozilla: integer overflow in createImageBitmap() (MFSA 2017-08) 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7): Source: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.src.rpm x86_64: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7): x86_64: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.i686.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7): Source: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.src.rpm aarch64: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.aarch64.rpm ppc64: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.ppc64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.ppc64.rpm ppc64le: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm s390x: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.s390x.rpm x86_64: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7): ppc64: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.ppc.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.ppc.rpm s390x: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.s390.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.s390.rpm x86_64: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.i686.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7): Source: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.src.rpm x86_64: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7): x86_64: firefox-52.0-5.el7_3.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.0-5.el7_3.i686.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/ 7.References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5428 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-08/ 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFYzGGjXlSAg2UNWIIRAiy9AKCpeaKmIcfQkfh/0cfKBmmf75ZYFACfdNsp /cWFCFUcYQADTjlNKWGSlN0=pZC8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Enterprise-watch-list mailing list
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