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Red Hat: CVE-2022-22756: CVE-2022-22756 Mozilla: Drag and dropping an image could have resulted in the dropped object being an executable (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2022-22756: CVE-2022-22756 Mozilla: Drag and dropping an image could have resulted in the dropped object being an executable (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/14/2022
Created
02/18/2022
Added
02/17/2022
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

If a user was convinced to drag and drop an image to their desktop or other folder, the resulting object could have been changed into an executable script which would have run arbitrary code after the user clicked on it. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97, Thunderbird < 91.6, and Firefox ESR < 91.6.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

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