RHSA-2020:0520HighCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

Published
February 18, 2020
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2020-6796 →CVE-2020-6798 →CVE-2020-6800 →

📋 Description

CVE-2020-6796 — Mozilla: Missing bounds check on shared memory read in the parent process CVE-2020-6798 — Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of template tag could result in JavaScript injection CVE-2020-6800 — Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73 and Firefox ESR 68.5

🎯 Affected products27

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • firefox-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:68.5.0-2.el7_7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)

✅ Remediation

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.

🔗 References (6)