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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42928: NULL Pointer Dereference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42928: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/22/2022
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Certain types of allocations were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific state, could have lead to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106, Firefox ESR < 102.4, and Thunderbird < 102.4.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox-esr

References

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