SB2020011313 - Red Hat update for firefox
Published: January 13, 2020
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17016)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when pasting a tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer incorrectly rewrites a @namespace rule. This could allow for injection into certain types of websites resulting in data exfiltration.
2) Type Confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17017)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error when processing HTML content in XPCVariant.cpp. A remote attacker can create a specially crated web page, trigger a type confusion error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
3) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17022)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the CSS sanitizer. When pasting a tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer does not escape < and > characters. If a webpage subsequently copies the node's innerHTML, assigning it to another innerHTML, this would result in an XSS vulnerability.
4) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17024)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
5) Type Confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17026)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error with StoreElementHole and FallibleStoreElement when processing HTML content in IonMonkey JIT compiler. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted webpage, trick the victim into visiting it, trigger a type confusion error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Note, this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.