CVE-2021-23964

Firefox ESR and 2 others: Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6.

CVE-2021-23964 is fixed in 11 products on 2 platforms, first by firefox 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, released January 25, 2021. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

HighFixed on 2 platforms
CVSS
8.8
Important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0136
71st percentile

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6. 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 < 85, Thunderbird < 78.7, and Firefox ESR < 78.7.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Windows apps
Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 91.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 91.0 Aug 4, 2021
Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 78.10.0 Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 78.10.0 Apr 15, 2021
Linux
firefox · RHEL 8 0:78.7.0-2.el8_3 RHSA-2021:0288 Jan 27, 2021
firefox · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
firefox · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
firefox · ol 8 0:78.7.0-2.0.1.el8_3 ELSA-2021-0288 Jan 28, 2021
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
firefox-geckodriver · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-geckodriver 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 85.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
thunderbird · RHEL 8 0:78.7.0-1.el8_3 RHSA-2021:0298 Jan 28, 2021
thunderbird · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
thunderbird · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
thunderbird · ol 8 0:78.7.0-1.0.1.el8_3 ELSA-2021-0298 Jan 29, 2021
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Apr 22, 2021
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Jan 25, 2021

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