RHSA-2024:5391 - 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.

Security Fix(es):

• Firefox: 115.14/128.1 ESR ()
• mozilla: Fullscreen notification dialog can be obscured by document content (CVE-2024-7518)
• mozilla: Out of bounds memory access in graphics shared memory handling (CVE-2024-7519)
• mozilla: Type confusion in WebAssembly (CVE-2024-7520)
• mozilla: Incomplete WebAssembly exception handing (CVE-2024-7521)
• mozilla: Out of bounds read in editor component (CVE-2024-7522)
• mozilla: CSP strict-dynamic bypass using web-compatibility shims (CVE-2024-7524)
• mozilla: Missing permission check when creating a StreamFilter (CVE-2024-7525)
• mozilla: Uninitialized memory used by WebGL (CVE-2024-7526)
• mozilla: Use-after-free in JavaScript garbage collection (CVE-2024-7527)
• mozilla: Use-after-free in IndexedDB (CVE-2024-7528)
• mozilla: Document content could partially obscure security prompts (CVE-2024-7529)

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 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

CVEs

• CVE-2024-7518
• CVE-2024-7519
• CVE-2024-7520
• CVE-2024-7521
• CVE-2024-7522
• CVE-2024-7524
• CVE-2024-7525
• CVE-2024-7526
• CVE-2024-7527
• CVE-2024-7528
• CVE-2024-7529

References

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