CVE-2021-38499

Name
CVE-2021-38499
Description
Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 92. 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.
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/mfsa2021-43/
MISC https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1667102%2C1723170%2C1725356%2C1727364

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* firefox >= None < 93.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

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