CVE-2022-29918 (GCVE-0-2022-29918)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 00:00
Modified
2025-04-15 15:05
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 100
Summary
Mozilla developers Gabriele Svelto, Randell Jesup and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 99. 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 Firefox < 100.
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Mozilla Firefox Version: unspecified   < 100
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