Synopsis
Critical: firefox security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Critical
Topic
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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.
Description
Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 45.4.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
- Multiple 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-2016-5257, CVE-2016-5278, CVE-2016-5270, CVE-2016-5272, CVE-2016-5274, CVE-2016-5276, CVE-2016-5277, CVE-2016-5280, CVE-2016-5281, CVE-2016-5284, CVE-2016-5250, CVE-2016-5261)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Samuel Groß, Brian Carpenter, Mei Wang, Ryan Duff, Catalin Dumitru, Mozilla developers, Christoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, Philipp, Carsten Book, Abhishek Arya, Atte Kettunen, and Nils as the original reporters.
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.
Affected Products
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.2 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.2 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.2 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.2 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 5 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.2 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1361986 - CVE-2016-5261 Mozilla: Integer overflow and memory corruption in WebSocketChannel (MFSA 2016-75, MFSA 2016-86)
- BZ - 1361998 - CVE-2016-5250 Mozilla: Resource Timing API is storing resources sent by the previous page (MFSA 2016-84, MFSA 2016-86)
- BZ - 1377543 - CVE-2016-5257 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 45.4 (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
- BZ - 1377549 - CVE-2016-5278 Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow in nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
- BZ - 1377552 - CVE-2016-5270 Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow in nsCaseTransformTextRunFactory::TransformString (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
- BZ - 1377554 - CVE-2016-5272 Mozilla: Bad cast in nsImageGeometryMixin (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
- BZ - 1377557 - CVE-2016-5276 Mozilla: Heap-use-after-free in mozilla::a11y::DocAccessible::ProcessInvalidationList (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
- BZ - 1377558 - CVE-2016-5274 Mozilla: use-after-free in nsFrameManager::CaptureFrameState (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
- BZ - 1377559 - CVE-2016-5277 Mozilla: Heap-use-after-free in nsRefreshDriver::Tick (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
- BZ - 1377561 - CVE-2016-5280 Mozilla: Use-after-free in mozilla::nsTextNodeDirectionalityMap::RemoveElementFromMap (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
- BZ - 1377563 - CVE-2016-5281 Mozilla: use-after-free in DOMSVGLength (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
- BZ - 1377565 - CVE-2016-5284 Mozilla: Add-on update site certificate pin expiration (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
CVEs
References
Vulmon