A firefox security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

RHSA-2020:2031-01: Critical: firefox security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Critical: firefox security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2031-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2031
Issue date: 2020-05-06
CVE Names: CVE-2020-6831 CVE-2020-12387 CVE-2020-12392
CVE-2020-12395
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1. Summary:

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 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 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 68.8.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Use-after-free during worker shutdown (CVE-2020-12387)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 76 and Firefox ESR 68.8
(CVE-2020-12395)

* Mozilla: Buffer overflow in SCTP chunk input validation (CVE-2020-6831)

* Mozilla: Arbitrary local file access with 'Copy as cURL' (CVE-2020-12392)

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/):

1831761 - CVE-2020-12387 Mozilla: Use-after-free during worker shutdown
1831763 - CVE-2020-6831 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in SCTP chunk input validation
1831764 - CVE-2020-12392 Mozilla: Arbitrary local file access with 'Copy as cURL'
1831765 - CVE-2020-12395 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 76 and Firefox ESR 68.8

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
firefox-68.8.0-1.el8_2.src.rpm

aarch64:
firefox-68.8.0-1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-68.8.0-1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
firefox-debugsource-68.8.0-1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
firefox-68.8.0-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-68.8.0-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
firefox-debugsource-68.8.0-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
firefox-68.8.0-1.el8_2.s390x.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-68.8.0-1.el8_2.s390x.rpm
firefox-debugsource-68.8.0-1.el8_2.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
firefox-68.8.0-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-68.8.0-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
firefox-debugsource-68.8.0-1.el8_2.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/

7. References:

  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6831
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12387
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12392
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12395
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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