Critical: firefox security update

Synopsis

Critical: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

Updated firefox packages that fix multiple security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.

Description

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL
Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.

Several flaws were 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-2015-7201, CVE-2015-7205, CVE-2015-7210, CVE-2015-7212,
CVE-2015-7213, CVE-2015-7222)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled content using the 'data:' and
'view-source:' URIs. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass the
same-origin policy and read data from cross-site URLs and local files.
(CVE-2015-7214)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
Upstream acknowledges Andrei Vaida, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, Looben Yang,
Abhishek Arya, Ronald Crane, Gerald Squelart, and Tsubasa Iinuma as the
original reporters of these issues.

All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
Firefox version 38.5.0 ESR, which corrects these issues. After installing
the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.7 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.2 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.7 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64le
  • RHEL for SAP HANA - Extended Update Support 6.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.2 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1291571 - CVE-2015-7201 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.5) (MFSA 2015-134)
  • BZ - 1291585 - CVE-2015-7210 Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebRTC when datachannel is used after being destroyed (MFSA 2015-138)
  • BZ - 1291587 - CVE-2015-7212 Mozilla: Integer overflow allocating extremely large textures (MFSA 2015-139)
  • BZ - 1291595 - CVE-2015-7205 Mozilla: Underflow through code inspection (MFSA 2015-145)
  • BZ - 1291596 - CVE-2015-7213 Mozilla: Integer overflow in MP4 playback in 64-bit versions (MFSA 2015-146)
  • BZ - 1291597 - CVE-2015-7222 Mozilla: Integer underflow and buffer overflow processing MP4 metadata in libstagefright (MFSA 2015-147)
  • BZ - 1291600 - CVE-2015-7214 Mozilla: Cross-site reading attack through data: and view-source: URIs (MFSA 2015-149)

CVEs

References