SB2025070212 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 update for firefox
Published: July 2, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Protection Mechanism Failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6430)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling embed or object tags. When a file download is specified via the Content-Disposition header, that directive would be ignored if the file was included via a <embed> or <object> tag, potentially making a website vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack.
2) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6424)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in FontFaceSet. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6429)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect parsing of embedded URLs that led to URLs being rewritten to the youtube.com domain. A remote attacker can use a specially crafted embed tag to bypass website security checks that restricted which domains users were allowed to embed.
4) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6425)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the WebCompat extension shipped with Firefox allows to enumerate resources and obtain a persistent UUID that identifies the browser, and persists between containers and normal/private browsing mode, but not profiles.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.