SB2019090652 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in firefox-esr (Alpine package)

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9812)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escape sandbox restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to a combination of issues related to a compromised sandboxed content and the Firefox Sync ability to  synchronize data with the malicious account. A remote attacker can can compromise a sandboxed content process using a different vulnerability, and then escape that sandbox by loading accounts.firefox.com in that process and forcing a log-in to a malicious Firefox Sync account. Preference settings that disable the sandbox are then synchronized to the local machine and the compromised browser would restart without the sandbox if a crash is triggered.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=e5cf7735a9421cc3029ffa0ffda33135ab64ac6a
• https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=6f6dc3727e020934d6a5a3d10fe2b591bd4c305a
• https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=0022d15ae85827001bd50d87a374fd81eb56167b