Issued:
2022-10-18
Updated:
2022-10-18

RHSA-2022:7019 - Important: firefox security update

Synopsis

Important: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

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 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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.1x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.1ppc64le

Updated Packages

  • firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-7.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
  • firefox-debuginfo-102.3.0-7.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
  • firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-7.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
  • firefox-102.3.0-7.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
  • firefox-debugsource-102.3.0-7.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
  • firefox-102.3.0-7.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
  • firefox-102.3.0-7.el8_1.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information