CVE-2022-1196 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox ESR

CWE-416 — Use After Free10 documents8 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 58.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird
Timeline
PublishedDec 22

Description

After a VR Process is destroyed, a reference to it may have been retained and used, leading to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.8 and Firefox ESR < 91.8.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages6 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 91.8
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 91.8
▶Debianmozilla/thunderbird< 1:91.8.0-1~deb11u1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

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CVEList
CVE-2022-1196: After a VR Process is destroyed, a reference to it may have been retained and used, leading to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash↗2022-12-22
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OSV
CVE-2022-1196: After a VR Process is destroyed, a reference to it may have been retained and used, leading to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash↗2022-12-22
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GHSA
GHSA-4rpw-8wx9-fp4x: After a VR Process is destroyed, a reference to it may have been retained and used, leading to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash↗2022-12-22
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OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2022-04-27
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2022-04-27
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free after VR Process destruction↗2022-04-05
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Debian
CVE-2022-1196: firefox-esr - After a VR Process is destroyed, a reference to it may have been retained and us...↗2022
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2022-14: CVE-2022-1196↗
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2022-15: CVE-2022-1196↗
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