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RHSA-2022:6997: 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-2022-40674: expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c
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Issued:

2022-10-18

Updated:

2022-10-18

RHSA-2022:6997 - 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 102.3.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-40674)

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 - 2130769 - CVE-2022-40674 expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: a4b59a2f4a4d4734dd3260afb1ec670c14fc06b25f01eaedd0159517c3736d04

x86_64

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 4db3d6b4bca2419b68471f05b71e0f39559274176ffdb634d2e34e80b6cf29a3

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 98a9ef4bfd5b1b0b00483fcdddc2547ae064ffabbdc6597448b03754eb5ca899

firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-7.el7_9.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 66fc95633e2c055a4a61b13af9267a8f079d570bed3c7e4ea69109e476d26712

firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 61d4a321e007e7baa3722e77caa8e7e7eab1e7059b5cbc8135379bf88e155c1f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: a4b59a2f4a4d4734dd3260afb1ec670c14fc06b25f01eaedd0159517c3736d04

x86_64

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 4db3d6b4bca2419b68471f05b71e0f39559274176ffdb634d2e34e80b6cf29a3

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 98a9ef4bfd5b1b0b00483fcdddc2547ae064ffabbdc6597448b03754eb5ca899

firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-7.el7_9.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 66fc95633e2c055a4a61b13af9267a8f079d570bed3c7e4ea69109e476d26712

firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 61d4a321e007e7baa3722e77caa8e7e7eab1e7059b5cbc8135379bf88e155c1f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: a4b59a2f4a4d4734dd3260afb1ec670c14fc06b25f01eaedd0159517c3736d04

x86_64

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 4db3d6b4bca2419b68471f05b71e0f39559274176ffdb634d2e34e80b6cf29a3

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 98a9ef4bfd5b1b0b00483fcdddc2547ae064ffabbdc6597448b03754eb5ca899

firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-7.el7_9.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 66fc95633e2c055a4a61b13af9267a8f079d570bed3c7e4ea69109e476d26712

firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 61d4a321e007e7baa3722e77caa8e7e7eab1e7059b5cbc8135379bf88e155c1f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7

SRPM

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: a4b59a2f4a4d4734dd3260afb1ec670c14fc06b25f01eaedd0159517c3736d04

s390x

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.s390x.rpm

SHA-256: 86380468af5cf5965d3ca7d3f6dabf34dccd70f58a09b890e844cbacf5c36600

firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-7.el7_9.s390x.rpm

SHA-256: 89a7f9fc31f3c6bc5d824ffcf72f980e169255f52643371588f53919515210d2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7

SRPM

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: a4b59a2f4a4d4734dd3260afb1ec670c14fc06b25f01eaedd0159517c3736d04

ppc64

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.ppc64.rpm

SHA-256: 273c30a8e85ce10e47cf87158764fd8a8027d3f7704f1237e7105d6020d0ffd9

firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-7.el7_9.ppc64.rpm

SHA-256: d2e67ecae2d64cf3d802c04b53c843f7173e6e9cb24fa839e8a3f3baf590c815

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: a4b59a2f4a4d4734dd3260afb1ec670c14fc06b25f01eaedd0159517c3736d04

ppc64le

firefox-102.3.0-7.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 0f06f355ad528774772aea08e0e423a9b0b3cbc6f3160cea38bd999404d40fa6

firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-7.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 365c981d2ae3b6f264a0836a033bf5c3d146087c350a3e56b57a104e6bb9fdcd

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