firefox security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2024:0026

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 115.6.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow affecting WebGL <code>DrawElementsInstanced</code> method with Mesa VM driver (CVE-2023-6856)

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 121, Firefox ESR 115.6, and Thunderbird 115.6 (CVE-2023-6864)

• Mozilla: Potential exposure of uninitialized data in <code>EncryptingOutputStream</code> (CVE-2023-6865)

• Mozilla: Symlinks may resolve to smaller than expected buffers (CVE-2023-6857)

• Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in <code>nsTextFragment</code> (CVE-2023-6858)

• Mozilla: Use-after-free in PR_GetIdentitiesLayer (CVE-2023-6859)

• Mozilla: Potential sandbox escape due to <code>VideoBridge</code> lack of texture validation (CVE-2023-6860)

• Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow affected <code>nsWindow::PickerOpen(void)</code> in headless mode (CVE-2023-6861)

• Mozilla: Use-after-free in <code>nsDNSService</code> (CVE-2023-6862)

• Mozilla: Clickjacking permission prompts using the popup transition (CVE-2023-6867)

• Mozilla: Undefined behavior in <code>ShutdownObserver()</code> (CVE-2023-6863)

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.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2024-January/099172.html

Affected packages:
firefox

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0026