CVE-2022-46884 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After Free6 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 56.70%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
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Mozilla Firefox
Timeline
PublishedAug 24

Description

A potential use-after-free vulnerability existed in SVG Images if the Refresh Driver was destroyed at an inopportune time. This could have lead to memory corruption or a potentially exploitable crash. *Note*: This advisory was added on December 13th, 2022 after discovering it was inadvertently left out of the original advisory. The fix was included in the original release of Firefox 106. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 106
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 106.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-w3h2-4jrj-6mcc: A potential use-after-free vulnerability existed in SVG Images if the Refresh Driver was destroyed at an inopportune time↗2023-08-24
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OSV
CVE-2022-46884: A potential use-after-free vulnerability existed in SVG Images if the Refresh Driver was destroyed at an inopportune time↗2023-08-24
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CVEList
CVE-2022-46884: A potential use-after-free vulnerability existed in SVG Images if the Refresh Driver was destroyed at an inopportune time↗2023-08-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Debian
CVE-2022-46884: firefox - A potential use-after-free vulnerability existed in SVG Images if the Refresh Dr...↗2022
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Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2022-44: CVE-2022-46884↗
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