Description
Failure to correctly record the location of live pointers across wasm instance calls resulted in a GC occurring within the call not tracing those live pointers. This could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.4.0, Firefox ESR < 91.4.0, and Firefox < 95.
Published: 2021-12-08
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2863-1 firefox-esr security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2874-1 thunderbird security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5026-1 firefox-esr security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5034-1 thunderbird security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-30468 Failure to correctly record the location of live pointers across wasm instance calls resulted in a GC occurring within the call not tracing those live pointers. This could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.4.0, Firefox ESR < 91.4.0, and Firefox < 95.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5186-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5246-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5248-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
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Debian Debian Linux
Mozilla Firefox Firefox Esr Thunderbird
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel E4s Rhel Eus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:03:06.894Z

Reserved: 2021-11-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-43539

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-08T22:15:09.730

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:29:23.167

Link: CVE-2021-43539

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-12-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-43539 - Bugzilla

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