CVE-2021-38493

Name
CVE-2021-38493
Description
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 91 and Firefox ESR 78.13. 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 ESR < 78.14, Thunderbird < 78.14, and Firefox < 92.
NVD Severity
high
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-42/
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-38/
MISC https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-39/
MISC https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1723391%2C1724101%2C1724107
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* firefox >= None < 92.0
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* firefox_esr >= None < 78.14
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* thunderbird >= None < 78.14

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
firefox 3.14-community 89.0.1-r0 Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev> fixed