CVE-2022-42928

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	>= unspecified, < 106
Mozilla	Firefox ESR	>= unspecified, < 102.4
Mozilla	Thunderbird	>= unspecified, < 102.4

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1791520Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-45/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-46/Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1791520Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-45/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-46/Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 22, 2022
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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