UBUNTU-CVE-2021-29981

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-29981

    Published: 11 Aug 2021Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-29981

    Summary:

    Details: An issue present in lowering/register allocation could have led to obscure but deterministic register confusion failures in JITted code that would lead to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 91 and Thunderbird < 91.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-29981, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/#CVE-2021-29981, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5037-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5248-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-29981

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -91.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

    Affected versions

    56.0+build6-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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