Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1489-03 - An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include integer overflow, out of bounds write, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Critical: firefox security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1489-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1489
Issue date: 2024-03-26
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-5388
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Summary:
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 115.9.1 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* nss: timing attack against RSA decryption (CVE-2023-5388)
* Mozilla: Crash in NSS TLS method (CVE-2024-0743)
* Mozilla: JIT code failed to save return registers on Armv7-A (CVE-2024-2607)
* Mozilla: Integer overflow could have led to out of bounds write (CVE-2024-2608)
* Mozilla: Improve handling of out-of-memory conditions in ICU (CVE-2024-2616)
* Mozilla: Improper handling of html and body tags enabled CSP nonce leakage (CVE-2024-2610)
* Mozilla: Clickjacking vulnerability could have led to a user accidentally granting permissions (CVE-2024-2611)
* Mozilla: Self referencing object could have potentially led to a use-after-free (CVE-2024-2612)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 124, Firefox ESR 115.9, and Thunderbird 115.9 (CVE-2024-2614)
* Mozilla: Privileged JavaScript Execution via Event Handlers (CVE-2024-29944)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-5388
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243644
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260012
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270660
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270661
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270662
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270663
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270664
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270665
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270666
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2271064