RHSA-2020:5314 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · December 2, 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 78.5.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
-
Mozilla: Parsing mismatches could confuse and bypass security sanitizer for chrome privileged code (CVE-2020-26951)
-
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 83 and Firefox ESR 78.5 (CVE-2020-26968)
-
Mozilla: Variable time processing of cross-origin images during drawImage calls (CVE-2020-16012)
-
Mozilla: Fullscreen could be enabled without displaying the security UI (CVE-2020-26953)
-
Mozilla: XSS through paste (manual and clipboard API) (CVE-2020-26956)
-
Mozilla: Requests intercepted through ServiceWorkers lacked MIME type restrictions (CVE-2020-26958)
-
Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebRequestService (CVE-2020-26959)
-
Mozilla: Potential use-after-free in uses of nsTArray (CVE-2020-26960)
-
Mozilla: DoH did not filter IPv4 mapped IP Addresses (CVE-2020-26961)
-
Mozilla: Software keyboards may have remembered typed passwords (CVE-2020-26965)
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.