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Red Hat: RHSA-2022-4871-01 Important: Firefox Heap Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey June 1, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New Firefox release is now accessible on Red Hat Enterprise Linux featuring critical security updates and performance improvements.
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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 91.10.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Cross-Origin resource's length leaked (CVE-2022-31736)
* Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL (CVE-2022-31737)
* Mozilla: Browser window spoof using fullscreen mode (CVE-2022-31738)
* Mozilla: Register allocation problem in WASM on arm64 (CVE-2022-31740)
* Mozilla: Uninitialized variable leads to invalid memory read (CVE-2022-31741)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 101 and Firefox ESR 91.10 (CVE-2022-31747)
* Mozilla: Querying a WebAuthn token with a large number of allowCredential entries may have leaked cross-origin information (CVE-2022-31742)
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 update red hat important firefox heap buffer overflow cross-origin security

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31736 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31737 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31738 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31740 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31741 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31742 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31747 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1):
Source: firefox-91.10.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-91.10.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.10.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.10.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: firefox-91.10.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.10.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.10.0-1.el8_1.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-2022:4871-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4871
Issue date: 2022-06-01

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1Update Services for SAP Solutions.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 update red hat important firefox heap buffer overflow cross-origin security

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2092018 - CVE-2022-31736 Mozilla: Cross-Origin resource's length leaked

2092019 - CVE-2022-31737 Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL

2092021 - CVE-2022-31738 Mozilla: Browser window spoof using fullscreen mode

2092023 - CVE-2022-31740 Mozilla: Register allocation problem in WASM on arm64

2092024 - CVE-2022-31741 Mozilla: Uninitialized variable leads to invalid memory read

2092025 - CVE-2022-31742 Mozilla: Querying a WebAuthn token with a large number of allowCredential entries may have leaked cross-origin information

2092026 - CVE-2022-31747 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 101 and Firefox ESR 91.10

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