RHSA-2022:9067 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · December 16, 2022
Updated · November 22, 2025
Topic
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.6.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es):
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Mozilla: Arbitrary file read from a compromised content process (CVE-2022-46872)
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Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.6 and Thunderbird 102.6 (CVE-2022-46878)
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Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGL (CVE-2022-46880)
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Mozilla: Memory corruption in WebGL (CVE-2022-46881)
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Mozilla: Drag and Dropped Filenames could have been truncated to malicious extensions (CVE-2022-46874)
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Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGL (CVE-2022-46882)
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.