Mozilla Thunderbird memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Thunderbird and classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-45421. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Thunderbird (Mail Client Software) (the affected version is unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown code. 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. CVE summarizes:

Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight and Gabriele Svelto reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.4. 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 affects Firefox ESR < 102.5, Thunderbird < 102.5, and Firefox < 107.

The weakness was disclosed 12/22/2022 by Andrew McCreight. The advisory is available at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-45421 since 11/14/2022. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/22/2023).

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

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.4

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Exploitinginfo

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

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: mozilla.org

Timelineinfo

11/14/2022 🔍
12/22/2022 +38 days 🔍
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01/22/2023 +31 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org

Advisory: mozilla.org
Researcher: Andrew McCreight
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-45421 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-45421
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-216542

Entryinfo

Created: 12/22/2022 22:27
Updated: 01/22/2023 13:51
Changes: 12/22/2022 22:27 (40), 01/22/2023 13:51 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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