CVE-2021-38495 (GCVE-0-2021-38495)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-03 00:03 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:44
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Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 78.13.0. 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 < 91.1 and Firefox ESR < 91.1.
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  • Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 91.1
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 91.1 (custom)
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