CVE-2022-42928 (GCVE-0-2022-42928)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-22 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-15 15:44
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CWE
- Memory Corruption in JS Engine
Assigner
References
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox |
Affected:
unspecified , < 106
(custom)
|
|
| Mozilla | Firefox ESR |
Affected:
unspecified , < 102.4
(custom)
|
|
| Mozilla | Thunderbird |
Affected:
unspecified , < 102.4
(custom)
|
Credits
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Nomenclature
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