Executive Summary

Summary
Title firefox security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2020:0512 First vendor Publication 2020-02-17
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2020-02-17
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

Problem Description:

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 impact of Important. 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 AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. Description:

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.

This update upgrades Firefox to version 68.5.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Missing bounds check on shared memory read in the parent process (CVE-2020-6796)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73 and Firefox ESR 68.5 (CVE-2020-6800)

* Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of template tag could result in JavaScript injection (CVE-2020-6798)

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.

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/):

1801916 - CVE-2020-6796 Mozilla: Missing bounds check on shared memory read in the parent process 1801918 - CVE-2020-6798 Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of template tag could result in JavaScript injection 1801920 - CVE-2020-6800 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73 and Firefox ESR 68.5

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020-0512.html

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Date Informations
2020-03-19 13:19:58
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