CVE-2022-22751

Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 96 and Firefox ESR 91.5

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.1

Review impact separately from score.

Published · January 11, 2022

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

Mozilla developers Calixte Denizet, Kershaw Chang, Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, Gabriele Svelto, Tyson Smith, Simon Giesecke, and Steve Fink reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 95 and Firefox ESR 91.4. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption, some of which could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security rates the severity of this flaw as determined by the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')