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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 RHSA-2022-1286-01 Critical: Firefox Update

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Calendar Grey April 8, 2022
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Canonical announces a crucial software patch for Chrome, fixing various vulnerabilities and improving overall web security performance.
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Summary

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 91.8.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in NSSToken objects (CVE-2022-1097)
* Mozilla: Out of bounds write due to unexpected WebAuthN Extensions (CVE-2022-28281)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8 (CVE-2022-28289)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free after VR Process destruction (CVE-2022-1196)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in DocumentL10n::TranslateDocument (CVE-2022-28282)
* Mozilla: Incorrect AliasSet used in JIT Codegen (CVE-2022-28285)
* Mozilla: Denial of Service via complex regular expressions (CVE-2022-24713)
* Mozilla: iframe contents could be rendered outside the border (CVE-2022-28286)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact Firefox browser update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1097 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1196 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-24713 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28281 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28282 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28285 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28286 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28289 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: firefox-91.8.0-1.el8_2.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-91.8.0-1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.8.0-1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.8.0-1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-91.8.0-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.8.0-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.8.0-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-91.8.0-1.el8_2.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.8.0-1.el8_2.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.8.0-1.el8_2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-91.8.0-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.8.0-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.8.0-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1286-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1286
Issue date: 2022-04-08

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact Firefox browser update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2072559 - CVE-2022-1097 Mozilla: Use-after-free in NSSToken objects

2072560 - CVE-2022-28281 Mozilla: Out of bounds write due to unexpected WebAuthN Extensions

2072561 - CVE-2022-1196 Mozilla: Use-after-free after VR Process destruction

2072562 - CVE-2022-28282 Mozilla: Use-after-free in DocumentL10n::TranslateDocument

2072563 - CVE-2022-28285 Mozilla: Incorrect AliasSet used in JIT Codegen

2072564 - CVE-2022-28286 Mozilla: iframe contents could be rendered outside the border

2072565 - CVE-2022-24713 Mozilla: Denial of Service via complex regular expressions

2072566 - CVE-2022-28289 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8

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