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WordPress 5.9.2 Security and Maintenance Release

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WordPress 5.9.2 is now available!

This security and maintenance release features 1 bug fix in addition to 3 security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 3.7 have also been updated.

WordPress 5.9.2 is a security and maintenance release. The next major release will be version 6.0.

You can download WordPress 5.9.2 from WordPress.org, or visit your Dashboard → Updates and click “Update Now”.

If you have sites that support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process.

The security team would like to thank the following people for responsively reporting vulnerabilities, allowing them to be fixed in this release:

Melar Dev, for finding a Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in a jQuery dependencyBen Bidner of the WordPress security team, for finding a Stored Cross Site Scripting VulnerabilityResearchers from Johns Hopkins University, for finding a Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in the block editor

For more information, browse the full list of changes on Trac, or check out the version 5.9.2 HelpHub documentation page.

Thanks and props!

The 5.9.2 release was led by Jb Audras, with the help of Jorge Costa on package updates, Sergey Biryukov on mission control, and David Baumwald on backport commits.

In addition to the release squad members and security researchers mentioned above, thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.9.2 happen:

Alan Jacob Mathew, Alex Concha, André, Anton Vlasenko, David Baumwald, ehtis, Jb Audras, Jorge Costa, Peter Wilson, Sergey Biryukov, Tonya Mork, and ironprogrammer.

Props @davidbaumwald and @sergeybiryukov for peer review.

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USN-5321-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

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Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, spoof the browser
UI, bypass security restrictions, obtain sensitive information, or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-0843, CVE-2022-26381, CVE-2022-26382,
CVE-2022-26383, CVE-2022-26384, CVE-2022-26385)

A TOCTOU bug was discovered when verifying addon signatures during
install. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to trick a
user into installing an addon with an invalid signature.
(CVE-2022-26387)

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CVE-2021-20269

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A flaw was found in the permissions of a log file created by kexec-tools. This flaw allows a local unprivileged user to read this file and leak kernel internal information from a previous panic. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality. This flaw affects kexec-tools shipped by Fedora versions prior to 2.0.21-8 and RHEL versions prior to 2.0.20-47.

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CVE-2020-36517

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An information leak in Nabu Casa Home Assistant Operating System and Home Assistant Supervised 2022.03 allows a DNS operator to gain knowledge about internal network resources via the hardcoded DNS resolver configuration.

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CVE-2020-14111

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A command injection vulnerability exists in the Xiaomi Router AX3600. The vulnerability is caused by a lack of inspection for incoming data detection. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute code.

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CVE-2020-14112

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Information Leak Vulnerability exists in the Xiaomi Router AX6000. The vulnerability is caused by incorrect routing configuration. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to download part of the files in Xiaomi Router AX6000.

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CVE-2020-14115

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A command injection vulnerability exists in the Xiaomi Router AX3600. The vulnerability is caused by a lack of inspection for incoming data detection. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute code.

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annobin-10.57-3.fc36 firefox-98.0-2.fc36 gcc-12.0.1-0.12.fc36

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FEDORA-2022-42ea499a7d

Packages in this update:

annobin-10.57-3.fc36
firefox-98.0-2.fc36
gcc-12.0.1-0.12.fc36

Update description:

This update provides the latest release of Firefox, with many bug fixes including critical security issues. It also includes updates to gcc and annobin which were necessary to build Firefox, with the following fixes:

fix up promoted SUBREG handling (#2045160, PR rtl-optimization/104839)
fix up check for asm goto (PR rtl-optimization/104777)
Upstream bugs (http://gcc.gnu.org/PRNNNNN) fixed: 70077, 79493, 80270, 84519, 87496, 88134, 90148, 91384, 96526, 99297, 99555, 99585, 100400, 100407, 100541, 100757, 101325, 101636, 101983, 102276, 102429, 103037, 103302, 103443, 103521, 103836, 103845, 103856, 103984, 104061, 104121, 104131, 104132, 104133, 104154, 104208, 104381, 104430, 104434, 104489, 104529, 104533, 104540, 104550, 104552, 104558, 104573, 104589, 104601, 104602, 104618, 104619, 104627, 104633, 104637, 104644, 104648, 104656, 104659, 104664, 104667, 104674, 104675, 104676, 104677, 104679, 104681, 104682, 104686, 104687, 104698, 104700, 104704, 104715, 104716, 104721, 104724, 104725, 104726, 104727, 104728, 104730, 104732, 104736, 104748, 104757, 104758, 104761, 104775, 104779, 104781, 104782, 104784, 104791, 104794, 104797, 104807, 104825, 104838

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