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Severity: Normal |
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Title: Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Date: April 04, 2020 |
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Bugs: #716098 |
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ID: 202004-07 |
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Synopsis |
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, the worst |
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of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code. |
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Background |
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Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla |
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Project. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 www-client/firefox < 74.0.1 *>= 68.6.1 |
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*>= 74.0.1 |
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Description |
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox. |
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Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. |
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Impact |
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A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web |
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page, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the |
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privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All Mozilla Firefox ESR users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-68.6.1" |
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All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-74.0.1" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2020-6819 |
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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6819 |
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[ 2 ] CVE-2020-6820 |
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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6820 |
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[ 3 ] MFSA-2020-11 |
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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-11/ |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-07 |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2020 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |