CVE-2021-29986

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    CVE-2021-29986

    Published: 17 Aug 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A suspected race condition when calling getaddrinfo led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. *Note: This issue only affected Linux operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.13, Thunderbird < 91, Firefox ESR < 78.13, and Firefox < 91.

    References: https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696138

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    Introduced- None
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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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