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RHSA-2023:5205: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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.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-2023:5205 - 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 9.0 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 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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 2238431 - CVE-2023-4863 libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0

SRPM

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.src.rpm

SHA-256: cdff6558e108f2f1f389ff3c1291189613f5e5a2a92add8b82492e33cfa2fa08

x86_64

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 43db8e38fe12cd93371c5de80022d1a52afbf71413fd8b3c895354cc38e2458f

firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 7db1e32c1dd8da59ffe0fa4bc75ed10daa1fa4a12c79b673c28c6088b36d7c65

firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 7bcdb298f440a8e3d3bd342214cfed01fb791b8cb187dc24161fab61a0123556

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0

SRPM

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.src.rpm

SHA-256: cdff6558e108f2f1f389ff3c1291189613f5e5a2a92add8b82492e33cfa2fa08

s390x

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm

SHA-256: fb1b6d1e4c99a97f258d90811cba3d1740ea6f37077ebe567e057703cd303e26

firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm

SHA-256: 21fc84eed2a10219b8e469a91eaea1ea105845d4fbf8ade55c2548990177d5ec

firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm

SHA-256: 7ad7592bfff8a34eafe571f805978960c0ed2b322cf67456441259baf524f4c5

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0

SRPM

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.src.rpm

SHA-256: cdff6558e108f2f1f389ff3c1291189613f5e5a2a92add8b82492e33cfa2fa08

ppc64le

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: b52aede7e24580fa77699364f0b3f4f7f9388d62167a1f4f88236ef6af7e0cd9

firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 6596290091e16cd0893943e656988d630d8beb560cda2fe2eb77ec8841370272

firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 0f0de31ddf194dc21cfd5fdfb6510e484ec3a6c90c1b0dcf077f4cf3d1a706ec

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0

SRPM

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.src.rpm

SHA-256: cdff6558e108f2f1f389ff3c1291189613f5e5a2a92add8b82492e33cfa2fa08

aarch64

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm

SHA-256: 690867fb79ed78e779c3d10d22eecf8b247f7337a8a5e4c8daa8257cc983888b

firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm

SHA-256: e454655b7d304233010bd29378a80bc892218dbe19952e91fa50a326a65c5600

firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm

SHA-256: 271f924e3216a1cee2353226f009fbd30205ed1db3bfe9b01d48a80b65ff295f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0

SRPM

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.src.rpm

SHA-256: cdff6558e108f2f1f389ff3c1291189613f5e5a2a92add8b82492e33cfa2fa08

ppc64le

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: b52aede7e24580fa77699364f0b3f4f7f9388d62167a1f4f88236ef6af7e0cd9

firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 6596290091e16cd0893943e656988d630d8beb560cda2fe2eb77ec8841370272

firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 0f0de31ddf194dc21cfd5fdfb6510e484ec3a6c90c1b0dcf077f4cf3d1a706ec

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0

SRPM

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.src.rpm

SHA-256: cdff6558e108f2f1f389ff3c1291189613f5e5a2a92add8b82492e33cfa2fa08

x86_64

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 43db8e38fe12cd93371c5de80022d1a52afbf71413fd8b3c895354cc38e2458f

firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 7db1e32c1dd8da59ffe0fa4bc75ed10daa1fa4a12c79b673c28c6088b36d7c65

firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 7bcdb298f440a8e3d3bd342214cfed01fb791b8cb187dc24161fab61a0123556

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0

SRPM

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.src.rpm

SHA-256: cdff6558e108f2f1f389ff3c1291189613f5e5a2a92add8b82492e33cfa2fa08

aarch64

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm

SHA-256: 690867fb79ed78e779c3d10d22eecf8b247f7337a8a5e4c8daa8257cc983888b

firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm

SHA-256: e454655b7d304233010bd29378a80bc892218dbe19952e91fa50a326a65c5600

firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm

SHA-256: 271f924e3216a1cee2353226f009fbd30205ed1db3bfe9b01d48a80b65ff295f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0

SRPM

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.src.rpm

SHA-256: cdff6558e108f2f1f389ff3c1291189613f5e5a2a92add8b82492e33cfa2fa08

s390x

firefox-102.15.1-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm

SHA-256: fb1b6d1e4c99a97f258d90811cba3d1740ea6f37077ebe567e057703cd303e26

firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm

SHA-256: 21fc84eed2a10219b8e469a91eaea1ea105845d4fbf8ade55c2548990177d5ec

firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm

SHA-256: 7ad7592bfff8a34eafe571f805978960c0ed2b322cf67456441259baf524f4c5

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