RHSA-2022:4767 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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 91.9.1 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Untrusted input used in JavaScript object indexing, leading to prototype pollution (CVE-2022-1529)
• Mozilla: Prototype pollution in Top-Level Await implementation (CVE-2022-1802)

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 for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2089217 - CVE-2022-1802 Mozilla: Prototype pollution in Top-Level Await implementation
• BZ - 2089218 - CVE-2022-1529 Mozilla: Untrusted input used in JavaScript object indexing, leading to prototype pollution

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1529
• CVE-2022-1802

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical