Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6162-01 - An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Issues addressed include a spoofing vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: firefox security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:6162-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6162
Issue date: 2023-10-30
Revision: 01
CVE Names: CVE-2023-5721
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Summary:
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 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 115.4.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Queued up rendering could have allowed websites to clickjack (CVE-2023-5721)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 119, Firefox ESR 115.4, and Thunderbird 115.4 (CVE-2023-5730)
* libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-44488)
* Mozilla: Large WebGL draw could have led to a crash (CVE-2023-5724)
* Mozilla: WebExtensions could open arbitrary URLs (CVE-2023-5725)
* Mozilla: Improper object tracking during GC in the JavaScript engine could have led to a crash. (CVE-2023-5728)
* Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via bidirectional characters (CVE-2023-5732)
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:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-5721
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important