Advisories » MGASA-2021-0012

Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Jan 2021
Modification date: 08 Jan 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-16044

Description

A malicious peer could have modified a COOKIE-ECHO chunk in a SCTP packet
in a way that potentially resulted in a use-after-free. We presume that with
enough effort it could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
(CVE-2020-16044).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28034
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.60.1_release_notes
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-01/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16044

SRPMS

7/core

• nss-3.60.1-1.mga7
• firefox-78.6.1-1.mga7
• firefox-l10n-78.6.1-1.mga7