ALASFIREFOX-2024-020


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASFIREFOX-2024-020
Advisory Release Date: 2024-01-19 02:20 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-01-24 00:16 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A vulnerability was found in SQLite SQLite3 up to 3.43.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function sessionReadRecord of the file ext/session/sqlite3session.c of the component make alltest Handler. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-248999.

NOTE: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/5bcbf4571c
NOTE: Fixed by: https://sqlite.org/src/info/0e4e7a05c4204b47 (CVE-2023-7104)


Affected Packages:

firefox


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra. Visit this page to learn more about Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Extras and this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update firefox to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    firefox-115.6.0-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    firefox-debuginfo-115.6.0-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64

src:
    firefox-115.6.0-1.amzn2.0.2.src

x86_64:
    firefox-115.6.0-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    firefox-debuginfo-115.6.0-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64