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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:6701 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2022-09-26
Updated:
2022-09-26

RHSA-2022:6701 - Security Advisory

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  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Important: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support.

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):

  • Mozilla: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages (CVE-2022-40959)
  • Mozilla: Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads (CVE-2022-40960)
  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 105 and Firefox ESR 102.3 (CVE-2022-40962)
  • Mozilla: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix (CVE-2022-40958)
  • Mozilla: Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass (CVE-2022-40956)
  • Mozilla: Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64 (CVE-2022-40957)

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.4 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2128792 - CVE-2022-40959 Mozilla: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages
  • BZ - 2128793 - CVE-2022-40960 Mozilla: Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads
  • BZ - 2128794 - CVE-2022-40958 Mozilla: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix
  • BZ - 2128795 - CVE-2022-40956 Mozilla: Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass
  • BZ - 2128796 - CVE-2022-40957 Mozilla: Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64
  • BZ - 2128797 - CVE-2022-40962 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 105 and Firefox ESR 102.3

CVEs

  • CVE-2022-3266
  • CVE-2022-40956
  • CVE-2022-40957
  • CVE-2022-40958
  • CVE-2022-40959
  • CVE-2022-40960
  • CVE-2022-40962

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4

SRPM
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.src.rpm SHA-256: 4efe7bd5a8206a83dae3a8627d2312a895fbe9d0fbb738bf5b314e394b4e346f
x86_64
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a3a00b521dcefdcf64ee4c6135a1f8886187823ba972a7aaab64d5d282371910
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: daa594cd7668cab4870a23e06e02c7fa45528e82327fffbd38985b932dc6207c
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b826e5b7251e9bc827155dbbee30c47ebbd4d3763a5dd61ae66706a956167c87

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.4

SRPM
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.src.rpm SHA-256: 4efe7bd5a8206a83dae3a8627d2312a895fbe9d0fbb738bf5b314e394b4e346f
x86_64
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a3a00b521dcefdcf64ee4c6135a1f8886187823ba972a7aaab64d5d282371910
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: daa594cd7668cab4870a23e06e02c7fa45528e82327fffbd38985b932dc6207c
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b826e5b7251e9bc827155dbbee30c47ebbd4d3763a5dd61ae66706a956167c87

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4

SRPM
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.src.rpm SHA-256: 4efe7bd5a8206a83dae3a8627d2312a895fbe9d0fbb738bf5b314e394b4e346f
x86_64
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a3a00b521dcefdcf64ee4c6135a1f8886187823ba972a7aaab64d5d282371910
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: daa594cd7668cab4870a23e06e02c7fa45528e82327fffbd38985b932dc6207c
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b826e5b7251e9bc827155dbbee30c47ebbd4d3763a5dd61ae66706a956167c87

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.4

SRPM
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.src.rpm SHA-256: 4efe7bd5a8206a83dae3a8627d2312a895fbe9d0fbb738bf5b314e394b4e346f
s390x
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.s390x.rpm SHA-256: e55ca044b0bc10416c59efdfd60a1bd209a987746d82dab6324d8166f2ab42de
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_4.s390x.rpm SHA-256: b47509e30ccf8a2fde03adf3e34322afb193170cbefe80f57c984433a3614500
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_4.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 51ac1961b1f7df12ff20cf468b773b67f6172ae66fbed0a8bc98c323846c996d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4

SRPM
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.src.rpm SHA-256: 4efe7bd5a8206a83dae3a8627d2312a895fbe9d0fbb738bf5b314e394b4e346f
ppc64le
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 29af3a11bcce821fd2fe89ebdc1049020924f0f0bab638e1b7b833aefc0676b7
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 8f66879dda245d5cb13c286d0c50eb38a1409f3adc8cd7b2d85aecffd3a260b7
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: a185384e4228d2e5b561179e5f9aa7f1d776812b0b3461726eafad58637098e9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4

SRPM
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.src.rpm SHA-256: 4efe7bd5a8206a83dae3a8627d2312a895fbe9d0fbb738bf5b314e394b4e346f
x86_64
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a3a00b521dcefdcf64ee4c6135a1f8886187823ba972a7aaab64d5d282371910
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: daa594cd7668cab4870a23e06e02c7fa45528e82327fffbd38985b932dc6207c
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b826e5b7251e9bc827155dbbee30c47ebbd4d3763a5dd61ae66706a956167c87

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4

SRPM
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.src.rpm SHA-256: 4efe7bd5a8206a83dae3a8627d2312a895fbe9d0fbb738bf5b314e394b4e346f
aarch64
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 522bc46351fbfbf57eace932292cc1af8738590f9f90ff523bd185162e5a83eb
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_4.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 36ca4d831c76ff0ccfb71e1fb2924414ffd764f2679d44f1fabbbc749ed75b22
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_4.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 7246c0dd19d062251657f0fe7b9ddd0ab3d551f273670c11ce1d25e95c6df8d2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4

SRPM
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.src.rpm SHA-256: 4efe7bd5a8206a83dae3a8627d2312a895fbe9d0fbb738bf5b314e394b4e346f
ppc64le
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 29af3a11bcce821fd2fe89ebdc1049020924f0f0bab638e1b7b833aefc0676b7
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 8f66879dda245d5cb13c286d0c50eb38a1409f3adc8cd7b2d85aecffd3a260b7
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: a185384e4228d2e5b561179e5f9aa7f1d776812b0b3461726eafad58637098e9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4

SRPM
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.src.rpm SHA-256: 4efe7bd5a8206a83dae3a8627d2312a895fbe9d0fbb738bf5b314e394b4e346f
x86_64
firefox-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a3a00b521dcefdcf64ee4c6135a1f8886187823ba972a7aaab64d5d282371910
firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: daa594cd7668cab4870a23e06e02c7fa45528e82327fffbd38985b932dc6207c
firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b826e5b7251e9bc827155dbbee30c47ebbd4d3763a5dd61ae66706a956167c87

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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