CVE-2021-38501

Summary

CVECVE-2021-38501
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-11-03 01:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-11-04 19:29:00 UTC
DescriptionMozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 92 and Firefox ESR 91.1. 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 < 93, Thunderbird < 91.2, and Firefox ESR < 91.2.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr All All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 91.2 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 93 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org
Bug List MISC bugzilla.mozilla.org
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 91.2 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159412 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for firefox (ELSA-2021-3755)
  • 159428 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for firefox (ELSA-2021-3791)
  • 159429 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for thunderbird (ELSA-2021-3838)
  • 159430 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for thunderbird (ELSA-2021-3841)
  • 198534 Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox Vulnerabilities (USN-5107-1)
  • 198559 Ubuntu Security Notification for Thunderbird Vulnerabilities (USN-5132-1)
  • 198641 Ubuntu Security Notification for Thunderbird Vulnerabilities (USN-5248-1)
  • 239664 Red Hat Update for firefox (RHSA-2021:3757)
  • 239665 Red Hat Update for firefox (RHSA-2021:3756)
  • 239666 Red Hat Update for firefox (RHSA-2021:3755)
  • 239677 Red Hat Update for firefox (RHSA-2021:3791)
  • 239682 Red Hat Update for thunderbird (RHSA-2021:3841)
  • 239683 Red Hat Update for thunderbird (RHSA-2021:3840)
  • 239684 Red Hat Update for thunderbird (RHSA-2021:3839)
  • 239685 Red Hat Update for thunderbird (RHSA-2021:3838)
  • 257116 CentOS Security Update for firefox (CESA-2021:3791)
  • 257126 CentOS Security Update for thunderbird (CESA-2021:3841)
  • 296066 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 40.107.3 Missing (CPUOCT2021)
  • 353982 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for thunderbird : ALAS2-2022-1818
  • 375943 Mozilla Firefox ESR Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA2021-45)
  • 375945 Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA2021-43)
  • 375959 Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA2021-47)
  • 502069 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox-esr
  • 502081 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 502381 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 503632 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 503634 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 503650 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 503669 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 503852 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 504812 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox-esr
  • 506260 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 751210 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2021:3331-1)
  • 751226 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2021:3331-1)
  • 751230 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2021:3446-1)
  • 751237 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2021:3451-1)
  • 751246 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2021:1367-1)
  • 751542 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-SU-2021:4150-1)
  • 751566 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-SU-2021:1635-1)
  • 940182 AlmaLinux Security Update for firefox (ALSA-2021:3755)
  • 940268 AlmaLinux Security Update for thunderbird (ALSA-2021:3838)
  • 960080 Rocky Linux Security Update for firefox (RLSA-2021:3755)
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