CVE-2021-29986

2021-08-1719:12:30

mozilla

www.cve.org

memory corruption

getaddrinfo

race condition

exploitable crash

linux

thunderbird

firefox esr

AI Score

8.4

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.017

Percentile

87.8%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Thunderbird",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "78.13",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "lessThan": "91",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Firefox ESR",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "78.13",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Firefox",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "91",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]