VDB
GHSA-r8g9-x5r3-7rc6
GHSA-r8g9-x5r3-7rc6
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022
The IndexedDatabaseManager class in the IndexedDB implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1 misinterprets an unspecified IDBDatabase field as a pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors, related to a "type confusion" issue.
Risk scores
CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Timeline
- May 17, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (3 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (3 in total, the first dated here)
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00025.html url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00034.html url
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1207.html url
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html url
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html url
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-61.html url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75541 url
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3300 advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-2 advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-1 advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2728 advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1142210 url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00033.html url
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032783 url