During operations on MessageTasks, a task may have been removed while it was still scheduled, resulting in memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.15, Thunderbird < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 78.15, and Firefox < 93.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2782-1 firefox-esr security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2874-1 thunderbird security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4981-1 firefox-esr security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5034-1 thunderbird security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-24948 During operations on MessageTasks, a task may have been removed while it was still scheduled, resulting in memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.15, Thunderbird < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 78.15, and Firefox < 93.
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Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00949}

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{'score': 0.01429}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:44:23.406Z

Reserved: 2021-08-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-38496

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-11-03T01:15:07.380

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:17:14.707

Link: CVE-2021-38496

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-38496 - Bugzilla

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