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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: firefox security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2023:6186-01
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6186
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 8.6 Extended Update 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:

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