| Name | CVE-2021-38501 |
| Description | Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 92 and Firefox ESR 91.1. 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 < 93, Thunderbird < 91.2, and Firefox ESR < 91.2. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 132.0.2-1 | fixed |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 68.9.0esr-1~deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 91.11.0esr-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 115.12.0esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 128.4.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 128.3.1esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 128.4.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 128.4.0esr-1 | fixed |
| thunderbird (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:68.9.0-1~deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1:91.10.0-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:115.12.0-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:128.4.3esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:115.16.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 1:128.4.3esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:128.4.3esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| firefox | source | (unstable) | 93.0-1 | | | |
| firefox-esr | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| thunderbird | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- firefox-esr <not-affected> (Only affect Firefox 91 not in any supported suite in vulnerable version)
- thunderbird <not-affected> (Only affects Thunderbird 91 not in any supported suite in vulnerable version)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-43/#CVE-2021-38501
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-45/#CVE-2021-38501
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-47/#CVE-2021-38501