RHSA-2020:2031 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

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Severity

Critical

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · May 6, 2020

Updated · November 2, 2026

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 Critical. 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 68.8.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Use-after-free during worker shutdown (CVE-2020-12387)

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 76 and Firefox ESR 68.8 (CVE-2020-12395)

  • Mozilla: Buffer overflow in SCTP chunk input validation (CVE-2020-6831)

  • Mozilla: Arbitrary local file access with 'Copy as cURL' (CVE-2020-12392)

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.

Related CVEs

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