Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 3, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2021-38493
CVE-2021-38493
Description
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 91 and Firefox ESR 78.13. 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 ESR < 78.14, Thunderbird < 78.14, and Firefox < 92.
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Affected products
12<78.14+ 3 more
- (no CPE)range: <78.14
- (no CPE)range: <92
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
<78.14+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <78.14
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- osv-coords6 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaThunderbird&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaThunderbird&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaThunderbird&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Workstation%20Extension%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaThunderbird&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Workstation%20Extension%2015%20SP3
< 128.5.1-1.1+ 5 more
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 92.0-1.2
- (no CPE)range: < 91.4.0-lp152.2.52.1
- (no CPE)range: < 91.4.0-8.45.2
- (no CPE)range: < 91.4.0-8.45.2
- (no CPE)range: < 91.4.0-8.45.2
Patches
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References
6- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgimitrex_refsource_MISC
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-38/mitrex_refsource_MISC
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-39/mitrex_refsource_MISC
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-42/mitrex_refsource_MISC
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