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CVE-2022-42928

Published: 27 October 2022

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

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
mdeslaur
starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script
that installs the Firefox snap

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
mozjs38
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

trusty Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

mozjs68
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

bionic Does not exist

focal Needs triage

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

mozjs78
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Needs triage

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
mantic Does not exist

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (106)
bionic
Released (106.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
focal
Released (106.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
mantic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
thunderbird
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lunar Not vulnerable
(1:102.10.0+build2-0ubuntu1)
bionic
Released (1:102.4.2+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
focal
Released (1:102.4.2+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
jammy
Released (1:102.4.2+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1)
kinetic
Released (1:102.4.2+build2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1)
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream
Released (1:102.4.0-1)
xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
mantic Not vulnerable
(1:102.10.0+build2-0ubuntu1)
mozjs52
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Needs triage

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

mozjs91
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Needs triage

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H