CVE-2021-43534

Mozilla Firefox ESR and 3 others: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 93 and Firefox…

CVE-2021-43534 is fixed in 10 products on 2 platforms, first by Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 91.3.0, released November 1, 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
0.0125
69th percentile

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 93 and Firefox ESR 91.2. 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 < 94, Thunderbird < 91.3, and Firefox ESR < 91.3.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Windows apps
Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 102.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 102.0 Jun 23, 2022
Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 91.3.0 Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 91.3.0 Nov 1, 2021
Linux
firefox · RHEL 8 0:91.3.0-1.el8_4 RHSA-2021:4123 Nov 3, 2021
firefox-esr · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 91.3.0esr-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-43534 Dec 8, 2021
firefox-esr · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 91.3.0esr-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-43534 Dec 8, 2021
firefox-esr · Debian 14 91.3.0esr-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-43534 Dec 8, 2021
thunderbird · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 1:91.3.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-43534 Dec 8, 2021
thunderbird · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 1:91.3.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-43534 Dec 8, 2021
thunderbird · Debian 14 1:91.3.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-43534 Dec 8, 2021
thunderbird · RHEL 8 0:91.3.0-2.el8_4 RHSA-2021:4130 Nov 4, 2021
thunderbird · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 16, 2023
thunderbird · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Feb 16, 2023
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 16, 2023
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Feb 16, 2023
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 16, 2023
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Feb 16, 2023
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 16, 2023
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Feb 16, 2023
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 16, 2023
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Feb 16, 2023
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 16, 2023
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Feb 16, 2023

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