CVE-2022-40956 - Vulnerability Details

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox Firefox Esr Thunderbird
Redhat	Enterprise Linux Rhel E4s Rhel Eus

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el7_9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7	RHSA-2022:6710	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el7_9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7	RHSA-2022:6711	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_6	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8	RHSA-2022:6702	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_6	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8	RHSA-2022:6708	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions
firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_1	cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.1	RHSA-2022:6703	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_1	cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.1	RHSA-2022:6716	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support
firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_2	cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2	RHSA-2022:6707	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_2	cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2	RHSA-2022:6715	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support
firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el8_4	cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4	RHSA-2022:6701	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el8_4	cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4	RHSA-2022:6713	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
firefox-0:102.3.0-6.el9_0	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9	RHSA-2022:6700	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
thunderbird-0:102.3.0-3.el9_0	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9	RHSA-2022:6717	2022-09-26T00:00:00Z

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1770094
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40956
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40956
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/#CVE-2022-40956
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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