UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38478

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38478

    Published: 24 Aug 2022Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-38478

    Summary:

    Details: Members 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-38478, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5581-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5663-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38478

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -104.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

    Affected versions

    56.0+build6-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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