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Fedora 39: 2023-6bdc468df7 Critical: Firefox Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 17, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The release of Firefox 117.0.1 for Fedora introduces a vital security patch along with an array of performance improvements and bug resolutions.
This update provides Firefox 117.0.1, with a significant security fix (for [CVE-2023-4863](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4863)) and various bug fixes.

Summary

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards

compliance, performance and portability.

Update Information:

This update provides Firefox 117.0.1, with a significant security fix (for [CVE-2023-4863](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4863)) and various bug fixes.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora software update critical fix firefox heap buffer overflow

Change Log

* Thu Sep 14 2023 Adam Williamson - 117.0.1-2 - Pass --with-clang-path to fix build with clang 17 (rhbz#2239047) * Wed Sep 13 2023 Martin Stransky - 117.0.1-1 - Updated to 117.0.1 * Wed Aug 30 2023 Martin Stransky - 117.0-2 - Added fix for rhbz#2235654

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2238950 - CVE-2023-4863 firefox: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238950 [ 2 ] Bug #2239047 - Firefox build fails with clang 17 due to change in output of clang++ -print-search-dirs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239047

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-6bdc468df7' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: firefox
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 117.0.1
Release: 2.fc39
URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/?redirect_source=mozilla-org
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web browser

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security advisory fedora software update critical fix firefox heap buffer overflow

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