Mozilla Firefox up to 96 memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 96 (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 02/08/2022 by Paul Adenot as Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 97 and Firefox ESR 91.6 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The advisory contains:

Mozilla developers Paul Adenot and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 96 and Firefox ESR 91.5. 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.
The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-22764. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/29/2022).

Upgrading to version 97 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 97

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01/07/2022 🔍
02/08/2022 +32 days 🔍
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09/29/2022 +233 days 🔍
10/26/2022 +27 days 🔍

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Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 97 and Firefox ESR 91.6
Researcher: Paul Adenot
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2022-22764 (🔍)

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Created: 09/29/2022 16:00
Updated: 10/26/2022 07:35
Changes: 09/29/2022 16:00 (15), 09/29/2022 16:01 (3), 09/29/2022 16:04 (27), 10/26/2022 07:35 (1)
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