Mozilla Thunderbird up to 102.3 Garbage Collector memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 102.3. It has been classified as critical. This impacts an unknown function of the component Garbage Collector. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-42928. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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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 $5k-$25k 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 102.4 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at mozilla.org.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (208577). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Mail Client Software

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• Mozilla

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• Thunderbird

Version

• 102.0
• 102.1
• 102.2
• 102.3

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/

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