CVE-2021-29984

high

Description

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

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1720031

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-08-17

Updated: 2022-12-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High