Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202004-11

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Affected packages

www-client/firefox on all architectures
Affected versions < 68.7.0
Unaffected versions >= 68.7.0
www-client/firefox-bin on all architectures
Affected versions < 68.7.0
Unaffected versions >= 68.7.0

Background

Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web page, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, an information leak or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-68.7.0"
 

All Mozilla Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-bin-68.7.0"
 

References

Release date
April 23, 2020

Latest revision
April 23, 2020: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
local, remote

Bugzilla entries