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Multiple Vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird

Issued: 
Thursday, 2 June, 2022
Last Revision: 
Thursday, 2 June, 2022
Vendor: 
Severity Level: 
Summary: 

Mozilla has released critical security updates for Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird, addressing multiple vulnerabilities. Most severe of discovered vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution on successful exploitation. 

 

Other discovered vulnerabilities, may allow attacker to install applications, edit or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights.

 

There are currently no report of exploitation of these vulnerabilities.

 

CVE/Vulnerability

  Description 

Severity/Score

CVE-2022-31737

Heap buffer overflow in WebGL

High

CVE-2022-31738

Browser window spoof using full screen mode

High

CVE-2022-31739

Attacker-influenced path traversal when saving downloaded files

High

CVE-2022-31740

Register allocation problem in WASM on arm64

High

CVE-2022-31741

Uninitialized variable leads to invalid memory read

High

CVE-2022-31747

Memory safety bugs  

High

CVE-2022-31748

Memory safety bugs  

High

 

                                                                                      Table 1: Vulnerablility details

 

CVE/Vulnerability 

  Affected Product(s)

 Fixed Version(s)

CVE-2022-31737

CVE-2022-31738

CVE-2022-31739

CVE-2022-31740

CVE-2022-31741

CVE-2022-31747

CVE-2022-31748

Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 101

Firefox ESR versions prior to 91.10

Thunderbird versions prior to 91.10

Firefox 101

Firefox ESR 91.10

Thunderbird 91.10

 

Table 2: Vulnerable versions

 

Recommendation: 

Apply Mozilla's recommended upgrades to vulnerable systems as soon as possible following thorough testing.