Mozilla Firefox up to 105 Garbage Collector memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 105. It has been rated as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Garbage Collector. This manipulation causes memory corruption. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-42928. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

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 10/15/2024).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 208577 (CentOS 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2022:7184)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 106 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (208577). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.0

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 208577
Nessus Name: CentOS 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2022:7184)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 106

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10/14/2022 🔍
10/18/2022 +4 days 🔍
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10/21/2022 +3 days 🔍
04/28/2025 +920 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 1791520
Researcher: Samuel Gross, Carl Smith
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2022-42928 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-42928
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-211939

Entryinfo

Created: 10/21/2022 13:08
Updated: 04/28/2025 23:44
Changes: 10/21/2022 13:08 (18), 10/21/2022 13:11 (28), 11/19/2022 08:40 (1), 10/15/2024 16:16 (16), 04/28/2025 23:44 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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