ALASFIREFOX-2024-026

References: CVE-2022-2205  CVE-2022-31744  CVE-2022-36314  CVE-2022-36317  CVE-2022-36320  CVE-2024-5688  CVE-2024-5691  CVE-2024-5693  CVE-2024-5700  CVE-2024-5702 
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity

Issue Overview:

RESERVED
NOTE: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-30/#CVE-2022-2205 (CVE-2022-2205)

An attacker could have injected CSS into stylesheets accessible via internal URIs, such as resource:, and in doing so bypass a page's Content Security Policy. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 91.11, Thunderbird < 102, Thunderbird < 91.11, and Firefox < 101. (CVE-2022-31744)

A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue of when opening a Windows shortcut from the local filesystem, an attacker could supply a remote path that leads to unexpected network requests from the operating system. (CVE-2022-36314)

When visiting a website with an overly long URL, the user interface would start to hang. Due to session restore, this could lead to a permanent Denial of Service.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 103. (CVE-2022-36317)

RESERVED
NOTE: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-30/#CVE-2022-36320 (CVE-2022-36320)

If a garbage collection was triggered at the right time, a use-after-free could have occurred during object transplant. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127 and Firefox ESR < 115.12. (CVE-2024-5688)

By tricking the browser with a `X-Frame-Options` header, a sandboxed iframe could have presented a button that, if clicked by a user, would bypass restrictions to open a new window. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127 and Firefox ESR < 115.12. (CVE-2024-5691)

Offscreen Canvas did not properly track cross-origin tainting, which could be used to access image data from another site in violation of same-origin policy. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127, Firefox ESR < 115.12, and Thunderbird < 115.12. (CVE-2024-5693)

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 126, Firefox ESR 115.11, and Thunderbird 115.11. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127 and Firefox ESR < 115.12. (CVE-2024-5700)

Memory corruption in the networking stack could have led to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 125 and Firefox ESR < 115.12. (CVE-2024-5702)

Issue Correction:
Run yum update firefox to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:
    firefox-115.12.0-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    firefox-debuginfo-115.12.0-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

src:
    firefox-115.12.0-1.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    firefox-115.12.0-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    firefox-debuginfo-115.12.0-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64