CVE-2022-42928 (GCVE-0-2022-42928)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-22 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-15 15:44
VLAI
Summary
Certain types of allocations were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific state, could have lead to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106, Firefox ESR < 102.4, and Thunderbird < 102.4.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • Memory Corruption in JS Engine
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 106 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 102.4 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 102.4 (custom)
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Credits
Samuel Groß and Carl Smith of Google V8 Security
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