CVE-2022-22752

Publication date 13 January 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Mozilla developers Christian Holler and Jason Kratzer reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 95. 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 < 96.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 23.04 lunar
Fixed 96.0+build2-0ubuntu1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 96.0+build2-0ubuntu1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 96.0+build2-0ubuntu1
21.10 impish
Fixed 96.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 96.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.04.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 96.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 96.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Notes

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mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-5229-1
    • Firefox vulnerabilities
    • 13 January 2022

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