Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-29917

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Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR - CVE-2022-29917

Published: May 3, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU62763
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29917
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Anolis OS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
CentOS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Oracle Linux
Slackware Linux
Ubuntu
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
firefox-esr (Debian package)
thunderbird (Debian package)
thunderbird (Red Hat package)
firefox (Red Hat package)
firefox
thunderbird
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)
mail-client/thunderbird-bin
mail-client/thunderbird
firefox (Ubuntu package)
Mozilla Thunderbird
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM)

How to mitigate CVE-2022-29917

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 100.0
Firefox ESR - update to 91.9.0
firefox-esr (Debian package) - addressed in versions 91.9.0esr-1~deb10u1, 91.9.0esr-1~deb11u1
thunderbird (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1:91.9.0-1~deb10u1, 1:91.9.0-1~deb11u1
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 91.9.0
thunderbird (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 91.9.0-3.el7_9, 91.9.0-3.el8_1, 91.9.0-3.el8_2, 91.9.0-3.el8_4, 91.9.0-3.el8_5, 91.9.0-3.el9_0
firefox (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 91.9.0-1.el7_9, 91.9.0-1.el8_1, 91.9.0-1.el8_2, 91.9.0-1.el8_5, 91.9.0-1.el9_0
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring - update to 2.3 Fix Pack 6
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.16
firefox - update to 91.9.0-1.0.1
thunderbird - update to 91.9.0-3.0.1
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:91.9.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:91.9.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 1:91.9.1+build1-0ubuntu0.21.10.1, 1:91.9.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
mail-client/thunderbird-bin - update to 91.12.0
mail-client/thunderbird - update to 91.12.0
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 100.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 100.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 100.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1

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