CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-29986
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-08-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
A suspected race condition when calling getaddrinfo led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. *Note: This issue only affected Linux operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.13, Thunderbird < 91, Firefox ESR < 78.13, and Firefox < 91.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 91.0)
• mozilla firefox esr (< 78.13.0)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 78.13.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696138 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696138 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/ Vendor Advisory