vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-5690: ELSA-2024-3951: firefox security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 11, 2024
Added
Jun 17, 2024
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

By monitoring the time certain operations take, an attacker could have guessed which external protocol handlers were functional on a user's system. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127, Firefox ESR < 115.12, and Thunderbird < 115.12.
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:
By monitoring the time certain operations take, an attacker could have guessed which external protocol handlers were functional on a user's system.

Solutions

oracle-linux-upgrade-firefoxoracle-linux-upgrade-firefox-x11oracle-linux-upgrade-thunderbird
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