CVE-2022-40960

Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105.

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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.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=1787633
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1787633
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/