Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:5440 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2023-10-04
Updated:
2023-10-04

RHSA-2023:5440 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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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 115.3.1 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

  • firefox: use-after-free in workers (CVE-2023-3600)
  • Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write in PathOps (CVE-2023-5169)
  • Mozilla: Use-after-free in Ion Compiler (CVE-2023-5171)
  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3 (CVE-2023-5176)
  • libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-5217)

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 - 2222652 - CVE-2023-3600 firefox: use-after-free in workers
  • BZ - 2240893 - CVE-2023-5169 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write in PathOps
  • BZ - 2240894 - CVE-2023-5171 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Ion Compiler
  • BZ - 2240896 - CVE-2023-5176 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3
  • BZ - 2241191 - CVE-2023-5217 libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx

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

SRPM
firefox-115.3.1-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: 56348411678d85d77452754c5a66c037fad554b3208630493a92fe9a2acea69c
ppc64le
firefox-115.3.1-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: a43135d2da0aaaa331938c9527f9ee22ecbaff260439337f066c75df26df0a73
firefox-debuginfo-115.3.1-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: cd15d2a137c9484a48acf823d969c3aa34a37f3eac19d23fbd814b578b0bd5f1
firefox-debugsource-115.3.1-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 1be9d268d5695114c58e4e11001524f828039bb2c738ee42547fc5f1d482c28e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM
firefox-115.3.1-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: 56348411678d85d77452754c5a66c037fad554b3208630493a92fe9a2acea69c
x86_64
firefox-115.3.1-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0f883c2d186271e8570d5a938289e99477cf3e623d2c6ff578fa7dc22d5fd324
firefox-debuginfo-115.3.1-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 018a8f44fe2823e8cd7c6f6392a5dbe34c82f473e34da1d71a78c796e29d0314
firefox-debugsource-115.3.1-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f47858c815f936222f49a2cdb49eca0b54588038e7be8f5bf3bafd1edae881e2

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