A firefox security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6.

[RHSA-2023:5198-01] Important: firefox security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: firefox security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5198-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5198
Issue date: 2023-09-18
CVE Names: CVE-2023-4863
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1. Summary:

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

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

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6):

Source:
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_6.src.rpm

aarch64:
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_6.s390x.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.s390x.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
firefox-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4863
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is [secalert@redhat.com]. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2023 Red Hat, Inc.

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