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Red Hat 9 RHSA-2023-1786-01 Critical: Firefox Memory Corruption

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An updated version of Firefox for Red Hat 9 tackles critical security vulnerabilities, improving overall performance and safeguarding users by implementing necessary patches.
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Summary

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.10.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* MFSA-TMP-2023-0001 Mozilla: Double-free in libwebp (BZ#2186102)
* Mozilla: Fullscreen notification obscured (CVE-2023-29533)
* Mozilla: Potential Memory Corruption following Garbage Collector compaction (CVE-2023-29535)
* Mozilla: Invalid free from JavaScript code (CVE-2023-29536)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10 (CVE-2023-29550)
* Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Safe Browsing Code (CVE-2023-1945)
* Mozilla: Content-Disposition filename truncation leads to Reflected File Download (CVE-2023-29539)
* Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded unsafely on Linux (CVE-2023-29541)
* Mozilla: Incorrect optimization result on ARM64 (CVE-2023-29548)
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.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1945 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29533 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29535 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29536 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29539 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29541 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29548 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29550 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: firefox-102.10.0-1.el9_1.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-102.10.0-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm firefox-x11-102.10.0-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-102.10.0-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-x11-102.10.0-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-102.10.0-1.el9_1.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el9_1.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el9_1.s390x.rpm firefox-x11-102.10.0-1.el9_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-102.10.0-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-x11-102.10.0-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1786-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1786
Issue date: 2023-04-14

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update memory corruption security fix important firefox linux distribution

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2186101 - CVE-2023-29533 Mozilla: Fullscreen notification obscured

2186102 - MFSA-TMP-2023-0001 Mozilla: Double-free in libwebp

2186103 - CVE-2023-29535 Mozilla: Potential Memory Corruption following Garbage Collector compaction

2186104 - CVE-2023-29536 Mozilla: Invalid free from JavaScript code

2186105 - CVE-2023-29539 Mozilla: Content-Disposition filename truncation leads to Reflected File Download

2186106 - CVE-2023-29541 Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded unsafely on Linux

2186109 - CVE-2023-1945 Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Safe Browsing Code

2186110 - CVE-2023-29548 Mozilla: Incorrect optimization result on ARM64

2186111 - CVE-2023-29550 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10

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