RHSA-2023:3140 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 102.11.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Browser prompts could have been obscured by popups (CVE-2023-32205)
• Mozilla: Crash in RLBox Expat driver (CVE-2023-32206)
• Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking (CVE-2023-32207)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 113 and Firefox ESR 102.11 (CVE-2023-32215)
• Mozilla: Content process crash due to invalid wasm code (CVE-2023-32211)
• Mozilla: Potential spoof due to obscured address bar (CVE-2023-32212)
• Mozilla: Potential memory corruption in FileReader::DoReadData() (CVE-2023-32213)

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

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.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2196736 - CVE-2023-32205 Mozilla: Browser prompts could have been obscured by popups
• BZ - 2196737 - CVE-2023-32206 Mozilla: Crash in RLBox Expat driver
• BZ - 2196738 - CVE-2023-32207 Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking
• BZ - 2196740 - CVE-2023-32211 Mozilla: Content process crash due to invalid wasm code
• BZ - 2196741 - CVE-2023-32212 Mozilla: Potential spoof due to obscured address bar
• BZ - 2196742 - CVE-2023-32213 Mozilla: Potential memory corruption in FileReader::DoReadData()
• BZ - 2196753 - CVE-2023-32215 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 113 and Firefox ESR 102.11

CVEs

• CVE-2023-32205
• CVE-2023-32206
• CVE-2023-32207
• CVE-2023-32211
• CVE-2023-32212
• CVE-2023-32213
• CVE-2023-32215

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important