RHSA-2020:3832 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 24, 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 78.3.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 81 and Firefox ESR 78.3 (CVE-2020-15673)

  • Mozilla: XSS when pasting attacker-controlled data into a contenteditable element (CVE-2020-15676)

  • Mozilla: Download origin spoofing via redirect (CVE-2020-15677)

  • Mozilla: When recursing through layers while scrolling, an iterator may have become invalid, resulting in a potential use-after-free scenario (CVE-2020-15678)

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

RHSA-2020:3832 — Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update | PulseLinux