Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 90. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 91.
References
| Link | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1544190%2C1716481%2C1717778%2C1719319%2C1722073 | Broken Link Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/ | Vendor Advisory |
Configurations
History
03 May 2022, 16:04
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| CWE | CWE-787 |
16 Mar 2022, 17:03
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| References | (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03 - Third Party Advisory |
22 Feb 2022, 01:15
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| References |
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25 Aug 2021, 16:59
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| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : 6.8
v3 : 8.8 |
| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| References | (MISC) https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/ - Vendor Advisory | |
| References | (MISC) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1544190%2C1716481%2C1717778%2C1719319%2C1722073 - Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory | |
| CWE | CWE-119 |
17 Aug 2021, 20:15
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| New CVE |
Information
Published : 2021-08-17 20:15
Updated : 2023-12-10 13:55
NVD link : CVE-2021-29990
Mitre link : CVE-2021-29990
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-29990
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Products Affected
mozilla
- firefox
CWE
CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write