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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2022-1287-01 Important Firefox Security Fix

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Calendar Grey April 8, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant security patch for Firefox on CentOS has been made public, tackling several severe vulnerabilities.
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update important firefox red hat enterprise use-after-free

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 (v. 8):
Source: firefox-91.8.0-1.el8_5.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-91.8.0-1.el8_5.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.8.0-1.el8_5.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.8.0-1.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-91.8.0-1.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.8.0-1.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.8.0-1.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-91.8.0-1.el8_5.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.8.0-1.el8_5.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.8.0-1.el8_5.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-91.8.0-1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.8.0-1.el8_5.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.8.0-1.el8_5.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


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1287-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1287
Issue date: 2022-04-08

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 denial of service update important firefox red hat enterprise use-after-free

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - 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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