high8.1
CVE-2021-29986
A suspected race condition when calling getaddrinfo led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | before 91.0 |
| Mozilla | Firefox Esr | before 78.13.0 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | before 78.13.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696138
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/
- 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
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/