Summary
Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive
information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-42927,
CVE-2022-42928, CVE-2022-42929, CVE-2022-42930, CVE-2022-42932)
It was discovered that Firefox saved usernames to a plaintext file. A
local user could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2022-42931)
Fixed packages 2
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS | firefox | 106.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS | firefox | 106.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 |
Vulnerabilities 6
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High 8.8
Certain types of allocations were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific state, could hav…
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High 8.8
Mozilla developers Ashley Hale and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 105 and Fire…
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High 8.1
A same-origin policy violation could have allowed the theft of cross-origin URL entries, leaking the result of a redire…
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High 7.1
If two Workers were simultaneously initializing their CacheStorage, a data race could have occurred in the `ThirdPartyU…
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Medium 6.5
If a website called `window.print()` in a particular way, it could cause a denial of service of the browser, which may …
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Low 3.3
Logins saved by Firefox should be managed by the Password Manager component which uses encryption to save files on-disk…