ArchLinux: 202002-5: firefox: multiple issues
Summary
- CVE-2020-6796 (arbitrary code execution)
A missing bounds check on shared memory read in the parent process has
been found in Firefox before 73.0. A content process could have
modified shared memory relating to crash reporting information, crash
itself, and cause an out-of-bound write. This could have caused memory
corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.
- CVE-2020-6798 (cross-site scripting)
An incorrect parsing of template could result in Javascript injection
in Firefox before 73.0 and Thunderbird before 68.5. If a template tag
was used in a
Resolution
Upgrade to 73.0-1.
# pacman -Syu "firefox>=73.0-1"
The problems have been fixed upstream in version 73.0.
References
Workaround
None.