CVE-2022-26485

Removing an XSLT parameter during processing could have lead to an exploitable use-after-free. We have had reports of attacks in the wild abusing this flaw. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97.0.2, Firefox ESR < 91.6.1, Firefox for Android < 97.3.0, Thunderbird < 91.6.2, and Focus < 97.3.0.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1758062
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-09/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1758062
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-09/