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RHSA-2022:6179: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

Related CVEs:

  • CVE-2022-38472: Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling
  • CVE-2022-38473: Mozilla: Cross-origin XSLT Documents would have inherited the parent’s permissions
  • CVE-2022-38476: Mozilla: Data race and potential use-after-free in PK11_ChangePW
  • CVE-2022-38477: Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2
  • CVE-2022-38478: Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104, Firefox ESR 102.2, and Firefox ESR 91.13
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Issued:

2022-08-24

Updated:

2022-08-24

RHSA-2022:6179 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

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.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 2120673 - CVE-2022-38472 Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling
  • BZ - 2120674 - CVE-2022-38473 Mozilla: Cross-origin XSLT Documents would have inherited the parent’s permissions
  • BZ - 2120678 - CVE-2022-38476 Mozilla: Data race and potential use-after-free in PK11_ChangePW
  • BZ - 2120695 - CVE-2022-38477 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2
  • BZ - 2120696 - CVE-2022-38478 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104, Firefox ESR 102.2, and Firefox ESR 91.13

CVEs

  • CVE-2022-38472
  • CVE-2022-38473
  • CVE-2022-38476
  • CVE-2022-38477
  • CVE-2022-38478

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: 000f38f4ac56da65d000920d832d1ef96cc7e98d396efdb717dea6e805e025b9

x86_64

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 6962f9addb18fb2ae50e6d742cd866f3c47627daaf1ccfaa24142fad5f9ef7a7

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 98880d44fc6e448e6e026bb319c63daaad2b9d7d67e55fa300bb87531c3a919c

firefox-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 30e56580b09123d451a29a634d9154735684991f233e509be163409edf14dcbf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: 000f38f4ac56da65d000920d832d1ef96cc7e98d396efdb717dea6e805e025b9

x86_64

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 6962f9addb18fb2ae50e6d742cd866f3c47627daaf1ccfaa24142fad5f9ef7a7

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 98880d44fc6e448e6e026bb319c63daaad2b9d7d67e55fa300bb87531c3a919c

firefox-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 30e56580b09123d451a29a634d9154735684991f233e509be163409edf14dcbf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: 000f38f4ac56da65d000920d832d1ef96cc7e98d396efdb717dea6e805e025b9

x86_64

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 6962f9addb18fb2ae50e6d742cd866f3c47627daaf1ccfaa24142fad5f9ef7a7

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 98880d44fc6e448e6e026bb319c63daaad2b9d7d67e55fa300bb87531c3a919c

firefox-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 30e56580b09123d451a29a634d9154735684991f233e509be163409edf14dcbf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7

SRPM

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: 000f38f4ac56da65d000920d832d1ef96cc7e98d396efdb717dea6e805e025b9

s390x

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm

SHA-256: 334f0b9b22b929046980d5cb8bfc0b11c7a61ffb5c73d60b2cf87cdd911026ed

firefox-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm

SHA-256: cae28447d2e173c0560ff8d60910cd7177f07c467b71e287620b64f7807ec356

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7

SRPM

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: 000f38f4ac56da65d000920d832d1ef96cc7e98d396efdb717dea6e805e025b9

ppc64

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm

SHA-256: 41d77e28c642f310155a39488e369adcf8f0d1b7ff80bd7304f21bfd3e7eb343

firefox-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.ppc64.rpm

SHA-256: 565cd644b71e7a291f2b62da283ddb44548fab52705298c5b73b9e773cea4a31

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: 000f38f4ac56da65d000920d832d1ef96cc7e98d396efdb717dea6e805e025b9

ppc64le

firefox-91.13.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 6e6c916bff6eb9457d5b08a4432738643f8ae4615a79f3b04048552dcac13c76

firefox-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 25784983698137fac5fa8efcc5b7cb14da181c8da2d3fa77bc7724ed66ea9991

The Red Hat security contact is [email protected]. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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