CVE-2022-45421

Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 107 and Firefox ESR 102.5

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · November 15, 2022

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight and Gabriele Svelto reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 106 and Firefox ESR 102.4. 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.

CVSS score applicability

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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')