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CVE-2022-42928

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 22, 2022 | Modified: Apr 15, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42928
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

Certain types of allocations were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific state, could have lead to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106, Firefox ESR < 102.4, and Thunderbird < 102.4.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
FirefoxMozilla*106.0 (excluding)
Firefox_esrMozilla*102.4 (excluding)
ThunderbirdMozilla*102.4 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatfirefox-0:102.4.0-1.el7_9*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el7_9*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8RedHatfirefox-0:102.4.0-1.el8_6*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8RedHatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_6*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRedHatfirefox-0:102.4.0-1.el8_1*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRedHatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_1*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportRedHatfirefox-0:102.4.0-1.el8_2*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportRedHatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_2*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportRedHatfirefox-0:102.4.0-1.el8_4*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportRedHatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_4*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9RedHatfirefox-0:102.4.0-1.el9_0*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9RedHatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el9_0*
FirefoxUbuntubionic*
FirefoxUbuntufocal*
FirefoxUbuntutrusty*
FirefoxUbuntuupstream*
FirefoxUbuntuxenial*
Mozjs38Ubuntubionic*
Mozjs38Ubuntuesm-apps/bionic*
Mozjs38Ubuntuupstream*
Mozjs52Ubuntubionic*
Mozjs52Ubuntuesm-apps/focal*
Mozjs52Ubuntuesm-infra/bionic*
Mozjs52Ubuntufocal*
Mozjs52Ubuntuupstream*
Mozjs68Ubuntuesm-infra/focal*
Mozjs68Ubuntufocal*
Mozjs68Ubuntuupstream*
Mozjs78Ubuntuesm-apps/jammy*
Mozjs78Ubuntujammy*
Mozjs78Ubuntukinetic*
Mozjs78Ubuntulunar*
Mozjs78Ubuntuupstream*
Mozjs91Ubuntujammy*
Mozjs91Ubuntuupstream*
ThunderbirdUbuntubionic*
ThunderbirdUbuntufocal*
ThunderbirdUbuntujammy*
ThunderbirdUbuntukinetic*
ThunderbirdUbuntutrusty*
ThunderbirdUbuntuupstream*
ThunderbirdUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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