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RHSA-2021:3498: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
Related CVEs:
- CVE-2021-38493: Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 92, Firefox ESR 78.14 and Firefox ESR 91.1
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Issued:
2021-09-13
Updated:
2021-09-13
RHSA-2021:3498 - Security Advisory
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Synopsis
Important: firefox security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
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Topic
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 78.14.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 92, Firefox ESR 78.14 and Firefox ESR 91.1 (CVE-2021-38493)
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.
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
- 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
Fixes
- BZ - 2002119 - CVE-2021-38493 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 92, Firefox ESR 78.14 and Firefox ESR 91.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7
SRPM
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: ba929393058d10cd1dc84c8f8b8759a404ca64ee9ab8710767c71e6be236b63e
x86_64
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.i686.rpm
SHA-256: ae1688cd8e0b6e805d3b5619968be74a3aca6f2f7d3aedbd9feb32ee8fb5f552
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: b0e57cb0dab5c2b3f2866cdec44172a8ae054bc3f2ebb3e611c7331272ff448a
firefox-debuginfo-78.14.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: d157f441fc93821bdb42fa0b66e2f05857a38bb15ae52df07600658015f65e2c
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7
SRPM
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: ba929393058d10cd1dc84c8f8b8759a404ca64ee9ab8710767c71e6be236b63e
x86_64
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.i686.rpm
SHA-256: ae1688cd8e0b6e805d3b5619968be74a3aca6f2f7d3aedbd9feb32ee8fb5f552
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: b0e57cb0dab5c2b3f2866cdec44172a8ae054bc3f2ebb3e611c7331272ff448a
firefox-debuginfo-78.14.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: d157f441fc93821bdb42fa0b66e2f05857a38bb15ae52df07600658015f65e2c
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7
SRPM
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: ba929393058d10cd1dc84c8f8b8759a404ca64ee9ab8710767c71e6be236b63e
x86_64
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.i686.rpm
SHA-256: ae1688cd8e0b6e805d3b5619968be74a3aca6f2f7d3aedbd9feb32ee8fb5f552
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: b0e57cb0dab5c2b3f2866cdec44172a8ae054bc3f2ebb3e611c7331272ff448a
firefox-debuginfo-78.14.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: d157f441fc93821bdb42fa0b66e2f05857a38bb15ae52df07600658015f65e2c
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7
SRPM
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: ba929393058d10cd1dc84c8f8b8759a404ca64ee9ab8710767c71e6be236b63e
s390x
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: 9b33e115ab6c6f7193fe3b7637078572ef6a5a9f2ebaf66827292889efa96509
firefox-debuginfo-78.14.0-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: f628d936cecacff565c010143b105c9575f567874f869b756f42126996412653
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7
SRPM
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: ba929393058d10cd1dc84c8f8b8759a404ca64ee9ab8710767c71e6be236b63e
ppc64
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
SHA-256: 8ed6727be54ddcf1eea8717e84a22cd02b33991a544c194b14341316791bc3a8
firefox-debuginfo-78.14.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
SHA-256: c91caf0f0f30f75d6eedd972e246f5777f2d78efc95344802450d3e8503faa08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7
SRPM
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: ba929393058d10cd1dc84c8f8b8759a404ca64ee9ab8710767c71e6be236b63e
ppc64le
firefox-78.14.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 6f1db27f5858281cd7bd25857603ebcdb2ab9cc52036829cb4629b4cd75d88d5
firefox-debuginfo-78.14.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: b18bea2471822433e5d408291e1918f943a46e3c09b9ad2cfeb6e590edecdd7e
The Red Hat security contact is [email protected]. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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