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Mageia 8: MGASA-2022-0089 Critical: Firefox Use-After-Free Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 6, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The latest updates to Firefox in Mageia address severe security vulnerabilities associated with use-after-free errors and potential sandbox breaches.
Removing an XSLT parameter during processing could have lead to an exploitable use-after-free (CVE-2022-26485)

Summary

Removing an XSLT parameter during processing could have lead to an exploitable use-after-free (CVE-2022-26485).
An unexpected message in the WebGPU IPC framework could lead to a use-after-free and exploitable sandbox escape (CVE-2022-26486).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30124

- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/nss_3_76.html

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-09/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-26485

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-26486

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/rootcerts-20220208.00-1.mga8

- 8/core/nss-3.76.0-1.mga8

- 8/core/firefox-91.6.1-1.mga8

- 8/core/firefox-l10n-91.6.1-1.mga8

Severity
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Publication date: 06 Mar 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0089.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-26485, CVE-2022-26486

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