Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update
Two security vulnerabilities affecting Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird have been addressed by Red Hat in their Enterprise Linux 8.2 distribution. The issues involve out-of-bounds access errors during Promise object resolution and linear sum optimization, identified as CVE-2025-4918 and CVE-2025-4919 respectively. These vulnerabilities are rated as important by Red Hat Product Security. An update to Firefox version 128.10.1-1.el8_2 is available to remediate these issues.
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Technical Summary
Red Hat Product Security issued advisory RHSA-2025:8639 addressing two out-of-bounds access vulnerabilities in Firefox and Thunderbird (CVE-2025-4918 and CVE-2025-4919). These vulnerabilities relate to improper memory access when resolving Promise objects and optimizing linear sums, which could lead to potential security risks. The advisory applies to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS 8.2 x86_64 and provides updated Firefox packages (version 128.10.1-1.el8_2) to fix these issues. No CVSS scores are provided in the advisory, but the severity is rated as important by Red Hat.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities involve out-of-bounds memory access, which can lead to memory corruption or crashes in Firefox and Thunderbird. Such issues may be exploitable to cause denial of service or potentially other impacts depending on the context of exploitation. Red Hat classifies the security impact as important, indicating a significant but not critical risk level.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Firefox packages (version 128.10.1-1.el8_2) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 AUS to address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply these official updates promptly to remediate the issues. Detailed update instructions are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigations are specified or required beyond applying the vendor-provided update.
Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update
Description
Two security vulnerabilities affecting Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird have been addressed by Red Hat in their Enterprise Linux 8.2 distribution. The issues involve out-of-bounds access errors during Promise object resolution and linear sum optimization, identified as CVE-2025-4918 and CVE-2025-4919 respectively. These vulnerabilities are rated as important by Red Hat Product Security. An update to Firefox version 128.10.1-1.el8_2 is available to remediate these issues.
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Technical Analysis
Red Hat Product Security issued advisory RHSA-2025:8639 addressing two out-of-bounds access vulnerabilities in Firefox and Thunderbird (CVE-2025-4918 and CVE-2025-4919). These vulnerabilities relate to improper memory access when resolving Promise objects and optimizing linear sums, which could lead to potential security risks. The advisory applies to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS 8.2 x86_64 and provides updated Firefox packages (version 128.10.1-1.el8_2) to fix these issues. No CVSS scores are provided in the advisory, but the severity is rated as important by Red Hat.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities involve out-of-bounds memory access, which can lead to memory corruption or crashes in Firefox and Thunderbird. Such issues may be exploitable to cause denial of service or potentially other impacts depending on the context of exploitation. Red Hat classifies the security impact as important, indicating a significant but not critical risk level.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Firefox packages (version 128.10.1-1.el8_2) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 AUS to address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply these official updates promptly to remediate the issues. Detailed update instructions are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigations are specified or required beyond applying the vendor-provided update.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:8639
- Cve Count
- 2
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-4919"]
Threat ID: 6a4049e227e9c797198330b4
Added to database: 06/27/2026, 22:08:34 UTC
Last enriched: 06/27/2026, 22:29:59 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:50 UTC
Views: 18
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