# CVE-2022-40962: Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 102.3, 105
- Published: 2022-12-22 · Updated: 2025-04-15

## Affected

- Mozilla Firefox ESR: fixed in 102.3
- Mozilla Thunderbird: fixed in 102.3
- Mozilla Firefox: fixed in 105

## Description

Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2. 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 ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mozilla Firefox ESR, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Firefox, upgrade to a fixed version (102.3, 105) per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-41/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1776655%2C1777574%2C1784835%2C1785109%2C1786502%2C1789440

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