CVE-2022-28289 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2022-28289: Mozilla developers and community members Nika Layzell, Andrew McCreight, Gabriele Svelto, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 91.7. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been

Affects 8 Linux releases across 23 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2022-28289 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

firefox-esr→ fixed in91.8.0esr-1~deb11u1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y firefox-esr
```
thunderbird→ fixed in1:91.8.0-1~deb11u1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y thunderbird
```

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

firefox-esr→ fixed in91.8.0esr-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y firefox-esr
```
thunderbird→ fixed in1:91.8.0-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y thunderbird
```

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

firefox-esr→ fixed in91.8.0esr-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y firefox-esr
```
thunderbird→ fixed in1:91.8.0-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y thunderbird
```

Alpine v3.20

Source: Alpine secdb

firefox-esr→ fixed in91.8.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade firefox-esr

firefox→ fixed in99.0-r0
```
apk update && apk add --upgrade firefox
```

thunderbird→ fixed in91.8.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade thunderbird

Alpine v3.21

Source: Alpine secdb

firefox-esr→ fixed in91.8.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade firefox-esr

firefox→ fixed in99.0-r0
```
apk update && apk add --upgrade firefox
```

librewolf→ fixed in99.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade librewolf

thunderbird→ fixed in91.8.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade thunderbird

Alpine edge

Source: Alpine secdb

firefox-esr→ fixed in91.8.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade firefox-esr

firefox→ fixed in99.0-r0
```
apk update && apk add --upgrade firefox
```

librewolf→ fixed in99.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade librewolf

thunderbird→ fixed in91.8.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade thunderbird

Alpine v3.18

Source: Alpine secdb

firefox-esr→ fixed in91.8.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade firefox-esr

firefox→ fixed in99.0-r0
```
apk update && apk add --upgrade firefox
```

thunderbird→ fixed in91.8.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade thunderbird

Alpine v3.19

Source: Alpine secdb

firefox-esr→ fixed in91.8.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade firefox-esr

firefox→ fixed in99.0-r0
```
apk update && apk add --upgrade firefox
```

thunderbird→ fixed in91.8.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade thunderbird

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