RHSA-2020:0512 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · February 17, 2020
Updated · November 22, 2025
Topic
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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 68.5.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
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Mozilla: Missing bounds check on shared memory read in the parent process (CVE-2020-6796)
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Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73 and Firefox ESR 68.5 (CVE-2020-6800)
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Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of template tag could result in JavaScript injection (CVE-2020-6798)
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.