RHSA-2024:6838 - Security Advisory

Topic

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

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.

Security Fix(es):

• mozilla: Type confusion when looking up a property name in a "with" block (CVE-2024-8381)
• mozilla: Internal event interfaces were exposed to web content when browser

EventHandler listener callbacks ran (CVE-2024-8382)

• mozilla: Firefox did not ask before openings news: links in an external

application (CVE-2024-8383)

• mozilla: Garbage collection could mis-color cross-compartment objects in OOM

conditions (CVE-2024-8384)

• mozilla: WASM type confusion involving ArrayTypes (CVE-2024-8385)
• mozilla: SelectElements could be shown over another site if popups are allowed (CVE-2024-8386)
• mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 130, Firefox ESR 128.2, and

Thunderbird 128.2 (CVE-2024-8387)

• mozilla: Type Confusion in Async Generators in Javascript Engine

(CVE-2024-7652)

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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2307328 - firefox: 115.15/128.2 ESR
• BZ - 2309427 - CVE-2024-8381 mozilla: Type confusion when looking up a property name in a "with" block
• BZ - 2309428 - CVE-2024-8382 mozilla: Internal event interfaces were exposed to web content when browser EventHandler listener callbacks ran
• BZ - 2309429 - CVE-2024-8383 mozilla: Firefox did not ask before openings news: links in an external application
• BZ - 2309430 - CVE-2024-8384 mozilla: Garbage collection could mis-color cross-compartment objects in OOM conditions
• BZ - 2309431 - CVE-2024-8385 mozilla: WASM type confusion involving ArrayTypes
• BZ - 2309432 - CVE-2024-8386 mozilla: SelectElements could be shown over another site if popups are allowed
• BZ - 2309433 - CVE-2024-8387 mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 130, Firefox ESR 128.2, and Thunderbird 128.2
• BZ - 2310490 - CVE-2024-7652 mozilla: Type Confusion in Async Generators in Javascript Engine

CVEs

• CVE-2024-7652
• CVE-2024-8381
• CVE-2024-8382
• CVE-2024-8383
• CVE-2024-8384
• CVE-2024-8385
• CVE-2024-8386
• CVE-2024-8387

References

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