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RHSA-2023:5197: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update
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.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-2023:5197 - 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 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 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 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
Fixes
- BZ - 2238431 - CVE-2023-4863 libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7
SRPM
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: 4a5d5bd37e37d5e8ae91840d9d9a26738d9a7c623281ab243340538cad782687
x86_64
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 5e14e94b9de2d575dd903a1aa8e67567d81f3459bb8d2dbbb461ddd4fd2887b1
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: c3f8ff4145d5d9ec35a675bfe1089fac389b670f97f9a4038423e8443480159e
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 38a9284f29678da147d43adac507e1faf2c8dd94f93c5fe520675a4dfc805375
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: be1cac4d01c770a4e7113127308eb517d795a014fb5523743982dd08f0ef02ea
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7
SRPM
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: 4a5d5bd37e37d5e8ae91840d9d9a26738d9a7c623281ab243340538cad782687
x86_64
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 5e14e94b9de2d575dd903a1aa8e67567d81f3459bb8d2dbbb461ddd4fd2887b1
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: c3f8ff4145d5d9ec35a675bfe1089fac389b670f97f9a4038423e8443480159e
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 38a9284f29678da147d43adac507e1faf2c8dd94f93c5fe520675a4dfc805375
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: be1cac4d01c770a4e7113127308eb517d795a014fb5523743982dd08f0ef02ea
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7
SRPM
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: 4a5d5bd37e37d5e8ae91840d9d9a26738d9a7c623281ab243340538cad782687
x86_64
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 5e14e94b9de2d575dd903a1aa8e67567d81f3459bb8d2dbbb461ddd4fd2887b1
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: c3f8ff4145d5d9ec35a675bfe1089fac389b670f97f9a4038423e8443480159e
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 38a9284f29678da147d43adac507e1faf2c8dd94f93c5fe520675a4dfc805375
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: be1cac4d01c770a4e7113127308eb517d795a014fb5523743982dd08f0ef02ea
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7
SRPM
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: 4a5d5bd37e37d5e8ae91840d9d9a26738d9a7c623281ab243340538cad782687
s390x
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: 024c38f7a702de99021f0375cb89beb5b668af989c01a87a98e2c29f1705e9d4
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: abc2209722d66ae79296391322fe5277f3a87588684a6d108d19bf667ca489d9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7
SRPM
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: 4a5d5bd37e37d5e8ae91840d9d9a26738d9a7c623281ab243340538cad782687
ppc64
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
SHA-256: cfdfb0824ef49f610ae6219a74f5e6b47372ca9649dcafcff2f81e00a7e07a26
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
SHA-256: f4aaea2d93a7f9cfe945b60577494f59443e0321676748b7f1e2def686d9e3a0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7
SRPM
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: 4a5d5bd37e37d5e8ae91840d9d9a26738d9a7c623281ab243340538cad782687
ppc64le
firefox-102.15.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: b16848c1402e53640bbf5b15eae6fc04349bc2ed7d69df387ef5814700054055
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 6567b3ba3e31bbe4dcc2829049c03e1d06b0389ad15a3d43bc04f236ef15a099
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