RedHat: RHSA-2022-6702:01 Important: firefox security update
Summary
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance, and portability.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.3.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages
(CVE-2022-40959)
* Mozilla: Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads
(CVE-2022-40960)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 105 and Firefox ESR 102.3
(CVE-2022-40962)
* Mozilla: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and
__Secure prefix (CVE-2022-40958)
* Mozilla: Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass (CVE-2022-40956)
* Mozilla: Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64
(CVE-2022-40957)
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.
Summary
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.
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40956 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40957 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40958 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40959 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40960 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40962 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Package List
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source:
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_6.src.rpm
aarch64:
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_6.s390x.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_6.s390x.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.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/
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.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Bugs Fixed
2128792 - CVE-2022-40959 Mozilla: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages
2128793 - CVE-2022-40960 Mozilla: Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads
2128794 - CVE-2022-40958 Mozilla: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix
2128795 - CVE-2022-40956 Mozilla: Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass
2128796 - CVE-2022-40957 Mozilla: Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64
2128797 - CVE-2022-40962 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 105 and Firefox ESR 102.3
