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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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