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Important Update: Firefox Security Vulnerability in RHEL 9 RHSA-2022:9065

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2022
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Oracle has issued a crucial patch for Chrome on Oracle Linux 9 tackling several memory vulnerability concerns and risks.
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 102.6.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Arbitrary file read from a compromised content process (CVE-2022-46872)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.6 and Thunderbird 102.6 (CVE-2022-46878)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGL (CVE-2022-46880)
* Mozilla: Memory corruption in WebGL (CVE-2022-46881)
* Mozilla: Drag and Dropped Filenames could have been truncated to malicious extensions (CVE-2022-46874)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGL (CVE-2022-46882)
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 threat mitigation web browser memory safety firefox update important security fix

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46872 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46874 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46878 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46880 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46881 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46882 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: firefox-102.6.0-1.el9_1.src.rpm
aarch64: firefox-102.6.0-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.6.0-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.6.0-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-102.6.0-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.6.0-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.6.0-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: firefox-102.6.0-1.el9_1.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.6.0-1.el9_1.s390x.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.6.0-1.el9_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-102.6.0-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.6.0-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.6.0-1.el9_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-2022:9065-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:9065
Issue date: 2022-12-15

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 threat mitigation web browser memory safety firefox update important security fix

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2153441 - CVE-2022-46872 Mozilla: Arbitrary file read from a compromised content process

2153449 - CVE-2022-46874 Mozilla: Drag and Dropped Filenames could have been truncated to malicious extensions

2153454 - CVE-2022-46878 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.6 and Thunderbird 102.6

2153463 - CVE-2022-46880 Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGL

2153466 - CVE-2022-46881 Mozilla: Memory corruption in WebGL

2153467 - CVE-2022-46882 Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGL

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