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Red Hat 8: RHSA-2022-5777 Important Firefox Memory Safety Fix

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Calendar Grey August 3, 2022
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A critical Firefox update for Red Hat has been rolled out to tackle various security vulnerabilities. Update is advised!
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 91.12.0 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 security issue Red Hat Firefox memory safety important update browser update

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. 8):
Source: firefox-91.12.0-2.el8_6.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-91.12.0-2.el8_6.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.12.0-2.el8_6.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.12.0-2.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-91.12.0-2.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.12.0-2.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.12.0-2.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-91.12.0-2.el8_6.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.12.0-2.el8_6.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.12.0-2.el8_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-91.12.0-2.el8_6.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.12.0-2.el8_6.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.12.0-2.el8_6.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-2022:5777-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5777
Issue date: 2022-08-01

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat Firefox memory safety important update browser update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - 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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