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Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

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High
Published: 09/22/2025 (09/22/2025, 01:28:33 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Multiple security vulnerabilities affecting Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird have been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 updates. These include sandbox escapes due to use-after-free and undefined behavior in the Graphics Canvas2D component, a same-origin policy bypass in the Layout component, memory safety bugs, information disclosure in the Networking Cache component, integer overflow in the SVG component, and incorrect boundary conditions in the JavaScript garbage collection component. The update fixes these issues in Firefox ESR 140.3, Thunderbird ESR 140.3, Firefox 143, and Thunderbird 143.

Affected software

redhat/firefox
pkg:rpm/redhat/firefox
Affected versions
<140.3<143.1

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AILast updated: 08/22/2026, 22:23:18 UTC

Technical Analysis

This Red Hat security advisory addresses several vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, including sandbox escapes caused by use-after-free (CVE-2025-10527) and invalid pointer dereference (CVE-2025-10528) in the Graphics Canvas2D component, a same-origin policy bypass in the Layout component (CVE-2025-10529), incorrect boundary conditions in the JavaScript garbage collection component (CVE-2025-10532), integer overflow in the SVG component (CVE-2025-10533), information disclosure in the Networking Cache component (CVE-2025-10536), and various memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-10537). These vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 versions prior to 140.3 and 143.1 and have been fixed in Firefox ESR 140.3, Thunderbird ESR 140.3, Firefox 143, and Thunderbird 143.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities include sandbox escapes, which could allow an attacker to break out of restricted execution environments, a same-origin policy bypass potentially enabling unauthorized access to web content, memory safety bugs that could lead to crashes or code execution, information disclosure exposing sensitive data, and integer overflow which could cause unexpected behavior. These issues collectively pose a high security risk to affected systems running vulnerable versions of Firefox and Thunderbird on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Mitigation Recommendations

A security update is available and should be applied to affected systems. Red Hat has released fixed packages for Firefox ESR 140.3, Thunderbird ESR 140.3, Firefox 143, and Thunderbird 143. Users should update to these versions or later to remediate the vulnerabilities. For detailed update instructions, refer to the Red Hat advisory at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the official patches.

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Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Csaf Category
csaf_security_advisory
Csaf Version
2.0
Publisher
Red Hat Product Security
Advisory Id
RHSA-2025:16260
Cve Count
7
Additional Cves
["CVE-2025-10528","CVE-2025-10529","CVE-2025-10532","CVE-2025-10533","CVE-2025-10536","CVE-2025-10537"]

Threat ID: 6a419cb427e9c79719abc989

Added to database: 06/28/2026, 22:14:12 UTC

Last enriched: 08/22/2026, 22:23:18 UTC

Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:49 UTC

Views: 22

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