CVE-2022-38478

NameCVE-2022-38478
DescriptionMembers the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 103, Firefox ESR 102.1, and Firefox ESR 91.12. 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 Thunderbird < 102.2, Thunderbird < 91.13, Firefox ESR < 91.13, Firefox ESR < 102.2, and Firefox < 104.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3080-1, DLA-3097-1, DSA-5217-1, DSA-5221-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid133.0-1fixed
firefox-esr (PTS)bullseye115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)128.5.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm128.3.1esr-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)128.5.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie128.5.0esr-1fixed
thunderbird (PTS)bullseye1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)1:128.5.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm1:115.16.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)1:128.5.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie1:128.5.0esr-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)104.0-1
firefox-esrsourcebuster91.13.0esr-1~deb10u1DLA-3080-1
firefox-esrsourcebullseye91.13.0esr-1~deb11u1DSA-5217-1
firefox-esrsource(unstable)102.2.0esr-1
thunderbirdsourcebuster1:91.13.0-1~deb10u1DLA-3097-1
thunderbirdsourcebullseye1:91.13.0-1~deb11u1DSA-5221-1
thunderbirdsource(unstable)1:102.2.0-1

Notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-33/#CVE-2022-38478
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-34/#CVE-2022-38478
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-35/#CVE-2022-38478
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-36/#CVE-2022-38478
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-37/#CVE-2022-38478

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