RHSA-2020:5561 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · December 16, 2020
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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 78.6.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
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chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8 (CVE-2020-16042)
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Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL (CVE-2020-26971)
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Mozilla: CSS Sanitizer performed incorrect sanitization (CVE-2020-26973)
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Mozilla: Incorrect cast of StyleGenericFlexBasis resulted in a heap use-after-free (CVE-2020-26974)
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Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6 (CVE-2020-35113)
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Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage (CVE-2020-26978)
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Mozilla: The proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs (CVE-2020-35111)
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.