RHSA-2024:1912 — Security Advisory

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.

This update upgrades Firefox to version 115.10.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• GetBoundName in the JIT returned the wrong object (CVE-2024-3852)

• Out-of-bounds-read after mis-optimized switch statement (CVE-2024-3854)

• Incorrect JITting of arguments led to use-after-free during garbage collection (CVE-2024-3857)

• Permission prompt input delay could expire when not in focus (CVE-2024-2609)

• Integer-overflow led to out-of-bounds-read in the OpenType sanitizer (CVE-2024-3859)

• Potential use-after-free due to AlignedBuffer self-move (CVE-2024-3861)

• Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox 125, Firefox ESR 115.10, and Thunderbird 115.10 (CVE-2024-3864)

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.