Heap-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-FIREFOX-6140360
- published28 Dec 2023
- disclosed28 Dec 2023
Introduced: 28 Dec 2023
CVE-2023-6879 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:7.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by Centos.
Increasing the resolution of video frames, while performing a multi-threaded encode, can result in a heap overflow in av1_loop_restoration_dealloc().
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6879
- https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/refs/tags/v3.7.1
- https://crbug.com/aomedia/3491
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AYONA2XSNFMXLAW4IHLFI5UVV3QRNG5K/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D6C2HN4T2S6GYNTAUXLH45LQZHK7QPHP/