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RHSA-2023:5437 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · October 4, 2023

Updated · March 18, 2026

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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 115.3.1 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

  • firefox: use-after-free in workers (CVE-2023-3600)

  • Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write in PathOps (CVE-2023-5169)

  • Mozilla: Use-after-free in Ion Compiler (CVE-2023-5171)

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3 (CVE-2023-5176)

  • libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-5217)

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.

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