CVE-2021-29990

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-29990
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-17 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-05-03 16:04:00 UTC
DescriptionMozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 90. 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 < 91.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 91 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org
Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202202-03) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Bug List MISC bugzilla.mozilla.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 198457 Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-5037-1)
  • 296066 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 40.107.3 Missing (CPUOCT2021)
  • 375753 Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerability (MFSA2021-33)
  • 502080 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 503851 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 710574 Gentoo Linux Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202202-03)
  • 751210 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2021:3331-1)
  • 751226 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2021:3331-1)
  • 751237 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2021:3451-1)
  • 751246 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2021:1367-1)
  • 751369 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2021:3191-1)
  • 752111 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2022:1582-1)
  • 752113 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2022:1577-1)
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