Mozilla Thunderbird up to 102.3 Garbage Collector memory corruption

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7.4$5k-$25k0.00

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 102.3 (Mail Client Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Garbage Collector. 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 summary by CVE is:

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 Thunderbird < 102.4, Firefox ESR < 102.4, and Firefox < 106.

The weakness was shared 12/23/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-42928 since 10/14/2022. 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 01/22/2023).

Upgrading to version 102.4 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at mozilla.org.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Thunderbird 102.4

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10/14/2022 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org

Advisory: mozilla.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-42928 (🔍)

Entryinfo

Created: 12/23/2022 08:23
Updated: 01/22/2023 18:33
Changes: 12/23/2022 08:23 (42), 01/22/2023 18:33 (11)
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