QID 240695

Date Published: 2022-09-27

QID 240695: Red Hat Update for firefox (RHSA-2022:6711)

Mozilla firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability...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).
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.
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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a security breach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.6 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.
    • Solution
    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2022:6711 for updates and patch information.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 240695

    CVE-2022-40956 | CVE-2022-40957 | CVE-2022-40958 | CVE-2022-40959 | CVE-2022-40960 | CVE-2022-40962 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2022:6711 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6711
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