Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202004-07

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 < 68.6.1
Unaffected versions >= 68.6.1

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 or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

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

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-68.6.1"
 

References

Release date
April 04, 2020

Latest revision
April 17, 2020: 2

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries