QID 239257

Date Published: 2021-04-29

QID 239257: Red Hat Update for firefox (RHSA-2021:1362)

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

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-2021:1362 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:1362 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1362?language=en