Alma Linux: CVE-2023-23598: Important: firefox security update (Multiple Advisories)

Alma Linux: CVE-2023-23598: Important: firefox security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity

7

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)

Published

01/23/2023

Created

01/25/2023

Added

01/25/2023

Modified

01/30/2025

Description

Due to the Firefox GTK wrapper code's use of text/plain for drag data and GTK treating all text/plain MIMEs containing file URLs as being dragged a website could arbitrarily read a file via a call to <code>DataTransfer.setData</code>. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109, Thunderbird < 102.7, and Firefox ESR < 102.7.

Solution(s)

• alma-upgrade-firefox
• alma-upgrade-thunderbird

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2023-23598
• CVE - 2023-23598
• https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-0288.html
• https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-0463.html
• https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-0285.html
• https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-0476.html