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RHSA-2023:5192: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
Related CVEs:
- CVE-2023-4863: A heap-based buffer flaw was found in the way libwebp, a library used to process “WebP” image format data, processes certain specially formatted WebP images. An attacker could use this flaw to crash or execute remotely arbitrary code in an application such as a web browser compiled with this library.
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Issued:
2023-09-18
Updated:
2023-09-18
RHSA-2023:5192 - Security Advisory
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Synopsis
Important: firefox security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
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Topic
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
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 102.15.1 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
- libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec (CVE-2023-4863)
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
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.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 2238431 - CVE-2023-4863 libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4
SRPM
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_4.src.rpm
SHA-256: 03628431230feda791471e024e7fd1bc24dda71a4418b39370c7de306db2cb55
x86_64
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: d53e98476051ac40daef93f4e0d1a0780925eb99a2a8261c5276175be9762d4d
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 16ca9ccdba13308681a4986122a43bdb3bcd4f46c04a8471e4a04fe53e115f1a
firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 0fe76f34450e87327e3aed53ed3aa244550d5154c3d0cda49588972aa7ac838e
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4
SRPM
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_4.src.rpm
SHA-256: 03628431230feda791471e024e7fd1bc24dda71a4418b39370c7de306db2cb55
x86_64
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: d53e98476051ac40daef93f4e0d1a0780925eb99a2a8261c5276175be9762d4d
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 16ca9ccdba13308681a4986122a43bdb3bcd4f46c04a8471e4a04fe53e115f1a
firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 0fe76f34450e87327e3aed53ed3aa244550d5154c3d0cda49588972aa7ac838e
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4
SRPM
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_4.src.rpm
SHA-256: 03628431230feda791471e024e7fd1bc24dda71a4418b39370c7de306db2cb55
ppc64le
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: e5f377fbdadf0f1287268147a5c3d215381ee6fa60a33c01db47bde39d1e1679
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: a8a4b021a436e76fe1cb95d318208a95f05aed5317c2ae72ba4e68d183102c10
firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 66226178c4a8b8f92557050d022739fac595f83c3fb9bf36f60ce11d20945484
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4
SRPM
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_4.src.rpm
SHA-256: 03628431230feda791471e024e7fd1bc24dda71a4418b39370c7de306db2cb55
x86_64
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: d53e98476051ac40daef93f4e0d1a0780925eb99a2a8261c5276175be9762d4d
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 16ca9ccdba13308681a4986122a43bdb3bcd4f46c04a8471e4a04fe53e115f1a
firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 0fe76f34450e87327e3aed53ed3aa244550d5154c3d0cda49588972aa7ac838e
The Red Hat security contact is [email protected]. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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