CVE-2022-46885 (GCVE-0-2022-46885)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-22 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-15 14:48
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Summary
Mozilla developers Timothy Nikkel, Ashley Hale, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 105. 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 < 106.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 106
  • CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 106 (custom)
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Credits
Mozilla developers
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