CVE-2021-38500 (GCVE-0-2021-38500)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-03 00:03 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:44
VLAI?
Summary
Mozilla 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 Thunderbird < 78.15, Thunderbird < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 78.15, and Firefox < 93.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 93, Firefox ESR 78.15, and Firefox ESR 91.2
Assigner
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Impacted products
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Affected:
unspecified , < 78.15
(custom)
Affected: unspecified , < 91.2 (custom) |
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