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Posted on 14 April 2023
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: firefox security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1786-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1786
Issue date: 2023-04-14
CVE Names: CVE-2023-1945 CVE-2023-29533 CVE-2023-29535
CVE-2023-29536 CVE-2023-29539 CVE-2023-29541
CVE-2023-29548 CVE-2023-29550
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1. Summary:
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance, and portability.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.10.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* MFSA-TMP-2023-0001 Mozilla: Double-free in libwebp (BZ#2186102)
* Mozilla: Fullscreen notification obscured (CVE-2023-29533)
* Mozilla: Potential Memory Corruption following Garbage Collector
compaction (CVE-2023-29535)
* Mozilla: Invalid free from JavaScript code (CVE-2023-29536)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10
(CVE-2023-29550)
* Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Safe Browsing Code (CVE-2023-1945)
* Mozilla: Content-Disposition filename truncation leads to Reflected File
Download (CVE-2023-29539)
* Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded
unsafely on Linux (CVE-2023-29541)
* Mozilla: Incorrect optimization result on ARM64 (CVE-2023-29548)
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.
4. 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.
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2186101 - CVE-2023-29533 Mozilla: Fullscreen notification obscured
2186102 - MFSA-TMP-2023-0001 Mozilla: Double-free in libwebp
2186103 - CVE-2023-29535 Mozilla: Potential Memory Corruption following Garbage Collector compaction
2186104 - CVE-2023-29536 Mozilla: Invalid free from JavaScript code
2186105 - CVE-2023-29539 Mozilla: Content-Disposition filename truncation leads to Reflected File Download
2186106 - CVE-2023-29541 Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded unsafely on Linux
2186109 - CVE-2023-1945 Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Safe Browsing Code
2186110 - CVE-2023-29548 Mozilla: Incorrect optimization result on ARM64
2186111 - CVE-2023-29550 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source:
firefox-102.10.0-1.el9_1.src.rpm
aarch64:
firefox-102.10.0-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm
firefox-x11-102.10.0-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
firefox-102.10.0-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm
firefox-x11-102.10.0-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
firefox-102.10.0-1.el9_1.s390x.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el9_1.s390x.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el9_1.s390x.rpm
firefox-x11-102.10.0-1.el9_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
firefox-102.10.0-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.10.0-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.10.0-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm
firefox-x11-102.10.0-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1945
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29533
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29535
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29536
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29539
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29541
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29548
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29550
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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