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Severity: Normal
Title: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple
vulnerabilities
Date: August 27, 2020
Bugs: #739006, #739164
ID: 202008-16

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution
of code.

Background
==========

Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla
Project.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the
Mozilla project.

Affected packages
=================

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
-------------------------------------------------------------------
1 www-client/firefox < 68.12.0 >= 68.12.0
2 www-client/firefox-bin < 68.12.0 >= 68.12.0
3 mail-client/thunderbird < 68.12.0 >= 68.12.0
4 mail-client/thunderbird-bin
< 68.12.0 >= 68.12.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
4 affected packages

Description
===========

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox and
Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below
for details.

Impact
======

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
==========

All Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-68.12.0"

All Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-bin-68.12.0"

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=mail-client/thunderbird-68.12.0"

All Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-68.12.0"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2020-15664
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15664
[ 2 ] CVE-2020-15669
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15669
[ 3 ] Upstream advisory (MFSA-2020-37)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-37/
[ 4 ] Upstream advisory (MFSA-2020-38)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-40/

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-16

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2020 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5


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