RHSA-2020:0519 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · February 19, 2020
Updated · November 22, 2025
Topic
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
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.