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.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696138 | Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03 | Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14 | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/ | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/ | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/ | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/ | Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2021-08-17T19:12:30
Updated: 2022-08-10T06:09:07
Reserved: 2021-04-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-29986
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2021-08-17T20:15:07.933
Modified: 2022-12-09T19:17:08.637
Link: CVE-2021-29986
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