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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: RHSA-2022-6174-01 Critical Firefox Updates

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Calendar Grey August 24, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Urgent security patch released for Firefox on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, highlighting significant vulnerabilities that need prompt attention.
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 91.13.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling (CVE-2022-38472)
* Mozilla: Cross-origin XSLT Documents would have inherited the parent's permissions (CVE-2022-38473)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2 (CVE-2022-38477)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104, Firefox ESR 102.2, and Firefox ESR 91.13 (CVE-2022-38478)
* Mozilla: Data race and potential use-after-free in PK11_ChangePW (CVE-2022-38476)
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 critical Firefox memory safety browser update address bar spoofing

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38472 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38473 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38476 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38477 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38478 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: firefox-91.13.0-1.el9_0.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-91.13.0-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.13.0-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-91.13.0-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.13.0-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-91.13.0-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.13.0-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-91.13.0-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-91.13.0-1.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-2022:6174-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6174
Issue date: 2022-08-24

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat critical Firefox memory safety browser update address bar spoofing

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2120673 - CVE-2022-38472 Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling

2120674 - CVE-2022-38473 Mozilla: Cross-origin XSLT Documents would have inherited the parent's permissions

2120678 - CVE-2022-38476 Mozilla: Data race and potential use-after-free in PK11_ChangePW

2120695 - CVE-2022-38477 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2

2120696 - CVE-2022-38478 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104, Firefox ESR 102.2, and Firefox ESR 91.13

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