CVE-2021-29986
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Summary
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 Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | unspecified < 78.13 | affected |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | unspecified < 91 | affected |
| Mozilla | Firefox ESR | unspecified < 78.13 | affected |
| Mozilla | Firefox | unspecified < 91 | affected |
Weaknesses
- Race condition when resolving DNS names could have led to memory corruption
ADP Enrichment
CVE Program Container
Additional References
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696138
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14
References
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696138
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14
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