CVE-2022-45405 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After Free13 documents8 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.1
EPSS
0.2%
top 60.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird
Timeline
PublishedDec 22
Latest updateFeb 6

Description

Freeing arbitrary nsIInputStream's on a different thread than creation could have led to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.5, Thunderbird < 102.5, and Firefox < 107.

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 Packages9 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 107
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 107.0
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 102.5
▶NVDmozilla/firefox_esr< 102.5
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 107.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2023-02-06
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CVEList
CVE-2022-45405: Freeing arbitrary nsIInputStream's on a different thread than creation could have led to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash↗2022-12-22
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GHSA
GHSA-436h-cr23-m9m7: Freeing arbitrary nsIInputStream's on a different thread than creation could have led to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash↗2022-12-22
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OSV
CVE-2022-45405: Freeing arbitrary nsIInputStream's on a different thread than creation could have led to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash↗2022-12-22
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2022-11-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2023-02-06
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2022-11-16
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free in InputStream implementation↗2022-11-15
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Debian
CVE-2022-45405: firefox - Freeing arbitrary <code>nsIInputStream</code>'s on a different thread than creat...↗2022
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2022-48: CVE-2022-45405↗
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