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
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| 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
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)
|
|
| lunar |
Needs triage
|
|
| mantic |
Does not exist
|
|
|
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 |
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-42928
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/#CVE-2022-42928
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-45/#CVE-2022-42928
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-46/#CVE-2022-42928
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5709-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5724-1
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian