Mozilla Firefox up to 105 Garbage Collector memory corruption
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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3.0 | $5k-$25k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 105 (Web Browser). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component Garbage Collector. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect availability.
The weakness was shared 10/18/2022 by Samuel Gross and Carl Smith as Bug 1791520 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The advisory contains:
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 is known as CVE-2022-42928. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/21/2022).
Upgrading to version 106 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
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CPE 2.3
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.1VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.0
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Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Firefox 106
Timeline
10/14/2022 🔍10/18/2022 🔍
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10/21/2022 🔍
11/19/2022 🔍
Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: Bug 1791520
Researcher: Samuel Gross, Carl Smith
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2022-42928 (🔍)
Entry
Created: 10/21/2022 13:08Updated: 11/19/2022 08:40
Changes: 10/21/2022 13:08 (18), 10/21/2022 13:11 (28), 11/19/2022 08:40 (1)
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