UBUNTU-CVE-2021-43539

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-43539

    Published: 8 Dec 2021Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-43539

    Summary:

    Details: Failure to correctly record the location of live pointers across wasm instance calls resulted in a GC occurring within the call not tracing those live pointers. This could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.4.0, Firefox ESR < 91.4.0, and Firefox < 95.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-43539, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-52/#CVE-2021-43539, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-53/#CVE-2021-43539, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-54/#CVE-2021-43539, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5186-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5246-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5248-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-43539

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -95.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

    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
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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