Issued:
2024-03-25
Updated:
2024-03-25

RHSA-2024:1490 - Critical: firefox security update

Synopsis

Critical: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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 115.9.1 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

  • nss: timing attack against RSA decryption (CVE-2023-5388)

  • Mozilla: Crash in NSS TLS method (CVE-2024-0743)

  • Mozilla: JIT code failed to save return registers on Armv7-A (CVE-2024-2607)

  • Mozilla: Integer overflow could have led to out of bounds write (CVE-2024-2608)

  • Mozilla: Improve handling of out-of-memory conditions in ICU (CVE-2024-2616)

  • Mozilla: Improper handling of html and body tags enabled CSP nonce leakage (CVE-2024-2610)

  • Mozilla: Clickjacking vulnerability could have led to a user accidentally granting permissions (CVE-2024-2611)

  • Mozilla: Self referencing object could have potentially led to a use-after-free (CVE-2024-2612)

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 124, Firefox ESR 115.9, and Thunderbird 115.9 (CVE-2024-2614)

  • Mozilla: Privileged JavaScript Execution via Event Handlers (CVE-2024-29944)

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

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.2x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.2ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS8.2x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS8.2x86_64

Updated Packages

  • firefox-115.9.1-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • firefox-115.9.1-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
  • firefox-debuginfo-115.9.1-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
  • firefox-debuginfo-115.9.1-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • firefox-debugsource-115.9.1-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
  • firefox-debugsource-115.9.1-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • firefox-115.9.1-1.el8_2.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information