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ALSA-2022:6700

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux – Published: 2022-09-26 00:00 – Updated: 2022-10-14 15:17 – Source website
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Summary
Important: firefox security update
Details

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.

References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "AlmaLinux:9",
        "name": "firefox"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "102.3.0-6.el9_0.alma"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.\n\nThis update upgrades Firefox to version 102.3.0 ESR.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* Mozilla: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages (CVE-2022-40959)\n* Mozilla: Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads (CVE-2022-40960)\n* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 105 and Firefox ESR 102.3 (CVE-2022-40962)\n* Mozilla: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix (CVE-2022-40958)\n* Mozilla: Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass (CVE-2022-40956)\n* Mozilla: Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64 (CVE-2022-40957)\n\nFor 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.",
  "id": "ALSA-2022:6700",
  "modified": "2022-10-14T15:17:20Z",
  "published": "2022-09-26T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6700"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40956"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40957"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40958"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40959"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40960"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40962"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2128792"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2128793"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2128794"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2128795"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2128796"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2128797"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-6700.html"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "CVE-2022-40959",
    "CVE-2022-40960",
    "CVE-2022-40962",
    "CVE-2022-40958",
    "CVE-2022-40956",
    "CVE-2022-40957"
  ],
  "summary": "Important: firefox security update"
}



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