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CVE-2022-29917

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight, Gabriele Svelto, Tom Ritter and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.9, Firefox ESR < 91.9, and Firefox < 100.

How to fix

Remediation Available
firefoxDebian
Fixed in:100.0-1CVE-2022-29917
firefoxUbuntu
Fixed in:100.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1USN-5411-1
Fixed in:100.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1USN-5411-1
thunderbirdUbuntu
Fixed in:1:91.9.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1USN-5435-1
Fixed in:1:91.9.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1USN-5435-1
Fixed in:1:91.9.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1USN-5435-1
DeveloperEditionWindows application
Affected:100.0Fixed in:100.0Mozilla
Mozilla Firefox (en-US)Windows application
Affected:100.0Fixed in:100.0Mozilla
Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US)Windows application
Affected:91.9Fixed in:91.9Mozilla
Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US)Windows application
Affected:91.9Fixed in:91.9Mozilla

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.00%probability of exploitation in 30 days
59thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 59% of all known CVEs.

References

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