Mozilla Thunderbird up to 102.5 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 102.5. Impacted is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-46878. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 102.5 (Mail Client Software). This affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 12/13/2022 by Randell Jesup, Valentin Gosu and Olli Pettay as Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 102.6 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The advisory contains:

Mozilla developers Randell Jesup, Valentin Gosu, Olli Pettay, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.5. 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.
This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-46878. 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 $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/15/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 208639 (CentOS 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2022:9079)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 102.6 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 (208639). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.4

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 208639
Nessus Name: CentOS 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2022:9079)

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Thunderbird 102.6

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12/09/2022 🔍
12/13/2022 +4 days 🔍
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12/19/2022 +6 days 🔍
04/28/2025 +861 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org

Advisory: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 102.6
Researcher: Randell Jesup, Valentin Gosu, Olli Pettay
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2022-46878 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-46878
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-216243

Entryinfo

Created: 12/19/2022 09:40
Updated: 04/28/2025 12:11
Changes: 12/19/2022 09:40 (4), 12/19/2022 09:41 (13), 12/19/2022 09:44 (28), 01/15/2023 14:35 (2), 01/15/2023 14:39 (11), 10/12/2024 07:56 (17), 04/15/2025 16:43 (1), 04/28/2025 12:11 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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