QID 239256

Date Published: 2021-04-29

QID 239256: Red Hat Update for firefox (RHSA-2021:1363)

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.This update upgrades Firefox to version 78.10.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es): Mozilla: Out of bound write due to lazy initialization (CVE-2021-23994) Mozilla: Use-after-free in Responsive Design Mode (CVE-2021-23995) Mozilla: More internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage (CVE-2021-23961) Mozilla: Secure Lock icon could have been spoofed (CVE-2021-23998) Mozilla: Blob URLs may have been granted additional privileges (CVE-2021-23999) Mozilla: Arbitrary FTP command execution on FTP servers using an encoded URL (CVE-2021-24002) Mozilla: Incorrect size computation in WebAssembly JIT could lead to null-reads (CVE-2021-29945) Mozilla: Port blocking could be bypassed (CVE-2021-29946)

Affected Products:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

On successful exploitation, it could allow an attacker to execute code.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.4 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4.3 severity.
  • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest packages which contain a patch. Refer to Applying Package Updates to RHEL system for details.

    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2021:1363 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:1363 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1363?language=en