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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: Firefox Important Security Issue RHSA-2022:5767-01 CVE-2022-2505

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Calendar Grey August 1, 2022
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Crucial Firefox upgrade for Red Hat Enterprise Linux addresses vulnerabilities related to memory safety and spoofing, enhancing overall security.
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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 91.12.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 103 and 102.1 (CVE-2022-2505)
* Mozilla: Directory indexes for bundled resources reflected URL parameters(CVE-2022-36318)
* Mozilla: Mouse Position spoofing with CSS transforms (CVE-2022-36319)
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux memory safety firefox update important security issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2505 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-36318 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-36319 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: firefox-91.12.0-2.el9_0.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-91.12.0-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.12.0-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.12.0-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-91.12.0-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.12.0-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.12.0-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-91.12.0-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.12.0-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.12.0-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-91.12.0-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.12.0-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.12.0-2.el9_0.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-2022:5767-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5767
Issue date: 2022-08-01

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux memory safety firefox update important security issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2111907 - CVE-2022-36319 Mozilla: Mouse Position spoofing with CSS transforms

2111908 - CVE-2022-36318 Mozilla: Directory indexes for bundled resources reflected URL parameters2111910 - CVE-2022-2505 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 103 and 102.1

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