RHSA-2024:10848 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 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.

Security Fix(es):

• firefox: thunderbird: CSP Bypass and XSS Exposure via Web Compatibility Shims (CVE-2024-11694)
• firefox: thunderbird: Unhandled Exception in Add-on Signature Verification (CVE-2024-11696)
• firefox: thunderbird: Select list elements could be shown over another site (CVE-2024-11692)
• firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 133, Thunderbird 133, Firefox ESR 128.5, and Thunderbird 128.5 (CVE-2024-11699)
• firefox: thunderbird: URL Bar Spoofing via Manipulated Punycode and Whitespace Characters (CVE-2024-11695)
• firefox: thunderbird: Improper Keypress Handling in Executable File Confirmation Dialog (CVE-2024-11697)

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2328941 - CVE-2024-11694 firefox: thunderbird: CSP Bypass and XSS Exposure via Web Compatibility Shims
• BZ - 2328943 - CVE-2024-11696 firefox: thunderbird: Unhandled Exception in Add-on Signature Verification
• BZ - 2328946 - CVE-2024-11692 firefox: thunderbird: Select list elements could be shown over another site
• BZ - 2328947 - CVE-2024-11699 firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 133, Thunderbird 133, Firefox ESR 128.5, and Thunderbird 128.5
• BZ - 2328948 - CVE-2024-11695 firefox: thunderbird: URL Bar Spoofing via Manipulated Punycode and Whitespace Characters
• BZ - 2328950 - CVE-2024-11697 firefox: thunderbird: Improper Keypress Handling in Executable File Confirmation Dialog

CVEs

• CVE-2024-11692
• CVE-2024-11694
• CVE-2024-11695
• CVE-2024-11696
• CVE-2024-11697
• CVE-2024-11699

References

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