RHSA-2024:1486 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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 115.9.1 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• nss: timing attack against RSA decryption (CVE-2023-5388)
• Mozilla: Crash in NSS TLS method (CVE-2024-0743)
• Mozilla: JIT code failed to save return registers on Armv7-A (CVE-2024-2607)
• Mozilla: Integer overflow could have led to out of bounds write (CVE-2024-2608)
• Mozilla: Improve handling of out-of-memory conditions in ICU (CVE-2024-2616)
• Mozilla: Improper handling of html and body tags enabled CSP nonce leakage (CVE-2024-2610)
• Mozilla: Clickjacking vulnerability could have led to a user accidentally granting permissions (CVE-2024-2611)
• Mozilla: Self referencing object could have potentially led to a use-after-free (CVE-2024-2612)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 124, Firefox ESR 115.9, and Thunderbird 115.9 (CVE-2024-2614)
• Mozilla: Privileged JavaScript Execution via Event Handlers (CVE-2024-29944)

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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2243644 - CVE-2023-5388 nss: timing attack against RSA decryption
• BZ - 2260012 - CVE-2024-0743 Mozilla: Crash in NSS TLS method
• BZ - 2270660 - CVE-2024-2607 Mozilla: JIT code failed to save return registers on Armv7-A
• BZ - 2270661 - CVE-2024-2608 Mozilla: Integer overflow could have led to out of bounds write
• BZ - 2270662 - CVE-2024-2616 Mozilla: Improve handling of out-of-memory conditions in ICU
• BZ - 2270663 - CVE-2024-2610 Mozilla: Improper handling of html and body tags enabled CSP nonce leakage
• BZ - 2270664 - CVE-2024-2611 Mozilla: Clickjacking vulnerability could have led to a user accidentally granting permissions
• BZ - 2270665 - CVE-2024-2612 Mozilla: Self referencing object could have potentially led to a use-after-free
• BZ - 2270666 - CVE-2024-2614 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 124, Firefox ESR 115.9, and Thunderbird 115.9
• BZ - 2271064 - CVE-2024-29944 Mozilla: Privileged JavaScript Execution via Event Handlers

CVEs

• CVE-2023-5388
• CVE-2024-0743
• CVE-2024-2607
• CVE-2024-2608
• CVE-2024-2610
• CVE-2024-2611
• CVE-2024-2612
• CVE-2024-2614
• CVE-2024-2616
• CVE-2024-29944

References

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