RHSA-2024:1912 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 115.10.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• GetBoundName in the JIT returned the wrong object (CVE-2024-3852)
• Out-of-bounds-read after mis-optimized switch statement (CVE-2024-3854)
• Incorrect JITting of arguments led to use-after-free during garbage collection (CVE-2024-3857)
• Permission prompt input delay could expire when not in focus (CVE-2024-2609)
• Integer-overflow led to out-of-bounds-read in the OpenType sanitizer (CVE-2024-3859)
• Potential use-after-free due to AlignedBuffer self-move (CVE-2024-3861)
• Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox 125, Firefox ESR 115.10, and Thunderbird 115.10 (CVE-2024-3864)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2275547 - CVE-2024-3852 Mozilla: GetBoundName in the JIT returned the wrong object
• BZ - 2275549 - CVE-2024-3854 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds-read after mis-optimized switch statement
• BZ - 2275550 - CVE-2024-3857 Mozilla: Incorrect JITting of arguments led to use-after-free during garbage collection
• BZ - 2275551 - CVE-2024-2609 Mozilla: Permission prompt input delay could expire when not in focus
• BZ - 2275552 - CVE-2024-3859 Mozilla: Integer-overflow led to out-of-bounds-read in the OpenType sanitizer
• BZ - 2275553 - CVE-2024-3861 Mozilla: Potential use-after-free due to AlignedBuffer self-move
• BZ - 2275555 - CVE-2024-3864 Mozilla: Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox 125, Firefox ESR 115.10, and Thunderbird 115.10

CVEs

• CVE-2024-2609
• CVE-2024-3302
• CVE-2024-3852
• CVE-2024-3854
• CVE-2024-3857
• CVE-2024-3859
• CVE-2024-3861
• CVE-2024-3864

References

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