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Red Hat: RHSA-2022-9071-01 Important: Firefox Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Significant announcement for Firefox enhances protection on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Relevant CVEs assessed as high-risk.
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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 memory corruption red hat enterprise important issue firefox update arbitrary file access web browser patch

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 E4S (v. 8.1):
Source: firefox-102.6.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm
ppc64le: firefox-102.6.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.6.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.6.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: firefox-102.6.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-102.6.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm firefox-debugsource-102.6.0-1.el8_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-2022:9071-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:9071
Issue date: 2022-12-15

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1Update Services for SAP Solutions.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 memory corruption red hat enterprise important issue firefox update arbitrary file access web browser patch

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1) - ppc64le, 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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