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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-23598: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-23598: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/02/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

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)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox-esr

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