RHSA-2023:6199HighCVSS 9.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

Published
October 30, 2023
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (7)

CVE-2023-44488 →CVE-2023-5721 →CVE-2023-5724 →CVE-2023-5725 →CVE-2023-5728 →CVE-2023-5730 →CVE-2023-5732 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-5721 — Mozilla: Queued up rendering could have allowed websites to clickjack CVE-2023-5724 — Mozilla: Large WebGL draw could have led to a crash CVE-2023-5725 — Mozilla: WebExtensions could open arbitrary URLs CVE-2023-5728 — Mozilla: Improper object tracking during GC in the JavaScript engine could have led to a crash. CVE-2023-5730 — Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 119, Firefox ESR 115.4, and Thunderbird 115.4 CVE-2023-5732 — Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via bidirectional characters CVE-2023-44488 — libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-debuginfo-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-debugsource-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-debugsource-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-debugsource-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)
  • firefox-debugsource-0:115.4.0-1.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0)

✅ Remediation

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. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

🔗 References (10)