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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4: RHSA-2023-1790-01 Important Firefox Update

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Calendar Grey April 14, 2023
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Crucial announcement regarding Firefox on Red Hat tackles vulnerabilities stemming from various memory corruption flaws and additional concerns. Discover the specifics today!
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support

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

security advisory security issue Red Hat memory corruption firefox web browser important fix

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 EUS (v.8.4):
Source: firefox-102.10.0-1.el8_4.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-102.10.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-102.10.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-102.10.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-102.10.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el8_4.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-2023:1790-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1790
Issue date: 2023-04-14

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4Extended Update Support.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 security issue Red Hat memory corruption firefox web browser important fix

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4) - 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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