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Red Hat: CVE-2023-23598: CVE-2023-23598 Mozilla: Arbitrary file read from GTK drag and drop on Linux (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2023-23598: CVE-2023-23598 Mozilla: Arbitrary file read from GTK drag and drop on Linux (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/23/2023
Created
01/25/2023
Added
01/24/2023
Modified
12/15/2023

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

References

  • CVE-2023-23598
  • RHSA-2023:0285
  • RHSA-2023:0286
  • RHSA-2023:0288
  • RHSA-2023:0289
  • RHSA-2023:0295
  • RHSA-2023:0296
  • RHSA-2023:0456
  • RHSA-2023:0460
  • RHSA-2023:0461
  • RHSA-2023:0462
  • RHSA-2023:0463
  • RHSA-2023:0476
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