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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2021-08-17T19:12:30

Updated: 2024-08-03T22:24:57.578Z

Reserved: 2021-04-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-29986

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-08-17T20:15:07.933

Modified: 2022-12-09T19:17:08.637

Link: CVE-2021-29986

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-29986 - Bugzilla