Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-38496 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-43/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-45/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-44/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-47/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-46/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1725335
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html