Important: firefox security update

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 115.7.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Out of bounds write in ANGLE (CVE-2024-0741)
• Mozilla: Failure to update user input timestamp (CVE-2024-0742)
• Mozilla: Crash when listing printers on Linux (CVE-2024-0746)
• Mozilla: Bypass of Content Security Policy when directive unsafe-inline was set (CVE-2024-0747)
• Mozilla: Phishing site popup could show local origin in address bar (CVE-2024-0749)
• Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking (CVE-2024-0750)
• Mozilla: Privilege escalation through devtools (CVE-2024-0751)
• Mozilla: HSTS policy on subdomain could bypass policy of upper domain (CVE-2024-0753)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 122, Firefox ESR 115.7, and Thunderbird 115.7 (CVE-2024-0755)

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 - 2259926 - CVE-2024-0741 Mozilla: Out of bounds write in ANGLE
• BZ - 2259927 - CVE-2024-0742 Mozilla: Failure to update user input timestamp
• BZ - 2259928 - CVE-2024-0746 Mozilla: Crash when listing printers on Linux
• BZ - 2259929 - CVE-2024-0747 Mozilla: Bypass of Content Security Policy when directive unsafe-inline was set
• BZ - 2259930 - CVE-2024-0749 Mozilla: Phishing site popup could show local origin in address bar
• BZ - 2259931 - CVE-2024-0750 Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking
• BZ - 2259932 - CVE-2024-0751 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through devtools
• BZ - 2259933 - CVE-2024-0753 Mozilla: HSTS policy on subdomain could bypass policy of upper domain
• BZ - 2259934 - CVE-2024-0755 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 122, Firefox ESR 115.7, and Thunderbird 115.7

CVEs

• CVE-2024-0741
• CVE-2024-0742
• CVE-2024-0746
• CVE-2024-0747
• CVE-2024-0749
• CVE-2024-0750
• CVE-2024-0751
• CVE-2024-0753
• CVE-2024-0755

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important