CVE-2022-0843 - Mozilla developers Kershaw Chang, Ryan VanderMeulen, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 97

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HIGH

Mozilla developers Kershaw Chang, Ryan VanderMeulen, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 97

Published Dec 22, 2022

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.55%

Description

Mozilla developers Kershaw Chang, Ryan VanderMeulen, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 97. 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 Firefox < 98.

Affected products

Vendor Mozilla Product Firefox Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <98

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Mozilla

Firefox

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<98

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

References (2)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1746523%2C1749062%2C1749164%2C1749214%2C1749610%2C1750032%2C1752100%2C1752405%2C1753612%2C1754508
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-10/
Vendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1746523%2C1749062%2C1749164%2C1749214%2C1749610%2C1750032%2C1752100%2C1752405%2C1753612%2C1754508		Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-10/		Vendor Advisory