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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_0024.json

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: firefox security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:0024-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0024
Issue date:         2024-01-02
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2023-6856
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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 115.6.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow affecting WebGL <code>DrawElementsInstanced</code> method with Mesa VM driver (CVE-2023-6856)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 121, Firefox ESR 115.6, and Thunderbird 115.6 (CVE-2023-6864)

* Mozilla: Potential exposure of uninitialized data in <code>EncryptingOutputStream</code> (CVE-2023-6865)

* Mozilla: Symlinks may resolve to smaller than expected buffers (CVE-2023-6857)

* Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in <code>nsTextFragment</code> (CVE-2023-6858)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in PR_GetIdentitiesLayer (CVE-2023-6859)

* Mozilla: Potential sandbox escape due to <code>VideoBridge</code> lack of texture validation (CVE-2023-6860)

* Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow affected <code>nsWindow::PickerOpen(void)</code> in headless mode (CVE-2023-6861)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in <code>nsDNSService</code> (CVE-2023-6862)

* Mozilla: Clickjacking permission prompts using the popup transition (CVE-2023-6867)

* Mozilla: Undefined behavior in <code>ShutdownObserver()</code> (CVE-2023-6863)

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-2023-6856

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255360
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255361
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255362
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255363
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255364
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255365
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255366
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255367
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255368
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255369
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255370