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High ALSA-2022:6174 5 CVEs

Important: firefox security update

Published Aug 24, 2022 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Ecosystem: AlmaLinux

Summary

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 91.13.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling (CVE-2022-38472)
* Mozilla: Cross-origin XSLT Documents would have inherited the parent's permissions (CVE-2022-38473)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2 (CVE-2022-38477)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104, Firefox ESR 102.2, and Firefox ESR 91.13 (CVE-2022-38478)
* Mozilla: Data race and potential use-after-free in PK11_ChangePW (CVE-2022-38476)
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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 firefox 91.13.0-1.el9_0.alma

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38472
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38473
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38476
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38477
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38478
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2120673
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2120674
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2120678
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2120695
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2120696
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-6174.html