Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox (opens in a new tab)
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- published21 Mar 2025
- disclosed19 Dec 2023
Introduced: 19 Dec 2023
CVE-2023-6857 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by RHEL.
When resolving a symlink, a race may occur where the buffer passed to readlink may actually be smaller than necessary.
This bug only affects Firefox on Unix-based operating systems (Android, Linux, MacOS). Windows is unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 115.6, Thunderbird < 115.6, and Firefox < 121.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6857
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1796023
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00020.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00021.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-10
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5581
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5582
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-54/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-55/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-56/