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Red Hat: CVE-2023-6865: Mozilla: Potential exposure of uninitialized data in EncryptingOutputStream (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2023-6865: Mozilla: Potential exposure of uninitialized data in <code>EncryptingOutputStream</code> (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/19/2023
Created
01/04/2024
Added
01/03/2024
Modified
01/03/2024

Description

`EncryptingOutputStream` was susceptible to exposing uninitialized data. This issue could only be abused in order to write data to a local disk which may have implications for private browsing mode. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 115.6 and Firefox < 121.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-x11

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