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CVE-2022-46871

Published: 14 December 2022

An out of date library (libusrsctp) contained vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 108.

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
sbeattie
libusrsctp fixed upstream in 0.9.4.0
specific issue is a failure to perform reference counting
correctly, and thus race conditions that lead to use-after-frees are
possible.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream
Released (108.0-1)
bionic
Released (108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
focal
Released (108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
mantic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
mozjs78
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Needs triage

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
libusrsctp
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lunar Not vulnerable
(0.9.5.0-2)
bionic Does not exist

focal Needed

jammy Not vulnerable
(0.9.5.0-2)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(0.9.5.0-2)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (0.9.5.0-2)
xenial Does not exist

mantic Not vulnerable
(0.9.5.0-2)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/sctplab/usrsctp/commit/939d48f9632d69bf170c7a84514b312b6b42257d
mozjs38
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
xenial Does not exist

bionic Needs triage

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

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

mozjs68
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Needs triage

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial 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

thunderbird
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lunar
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu1)
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
bionic
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
focal
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
jammy
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1)
kinetic
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1)
mantic
Released (1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu1)

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