RHSA-2023:3561 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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 102.12.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Click-jacking certificate exceptions through rendering lag (CVE-2023-34414)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 114 and Firefox ESR 102.12 (CVE-2023-34416)

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 Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2212841 - CVE-2023-34414 Mozilla: Click-jacking certificate exceptions through rendering lag
• BZ - 2212842 - CVE-2023-34416 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 114 and Firefox ESR 102.12

CVEs

• CVE-2023-34414
• CVE-2023-34416

References

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