CVE-2021-38494

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 91. 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 < 92.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

03 May 2022, 16:04

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CWE NVD-CWE-noinfo CWE-787

04 Nov 2021, 20:49

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CWE NVD-CWE-noinfo
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 6.8
v3 : 8.8
References (MISC) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1723920%2C1725638 - (MISC) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1723920%2C1725638 - Broken Link
References (MISC) https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-38/ - (MISC) https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-38/ - Vendor Advisory
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

03 Nov 2021, 01:15

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-11-03 01:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 14:09


NVD link : CVE-2021-38494

Mitre link : CVE-2021-38494

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-38494


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Products Affected

mozilla

  • firefox
CWE
CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write