cve-2021-29984
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-08-17 19:12
Modified
2024-08-03 22:24
Severity ?
Summary
Instruction reordering resulted in a sequence of instructions that would cause an object to be incorrectly considered during garbage collection. This led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.13, Thunderbird < 91, Firefox ESR < 78.13, and Firefox < 91.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1720031Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaFirefox ESR
MozillaFirefox
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