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firefox-esr, thunderbird — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2021-4129

Mozilla developers and community members Julian Hector, Randell Jesup, Gabriele Svelto, Tyson Smith, Christian Holler, and Masayuki Nakano reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 94. 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 < 95, Firefox ESR < 91.4.0, and Thunderbird < 91.4.0.

Products
firefox-esr, thunderbird
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1:91.4.0-1, 91.4.0esr-1
CVEs
CVE-2021-4129
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 00:44 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-4129

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Dec 2022, 20:15 UTC

Mozilla developers and community members Julian Hector, Randell Jesup, Gabriele Svelto, Tyson Smith, Christian Holler, and Masayuki Nakano reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 94. 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 < 95, Firefox ESR < 91.4.0, and Thunderbird < 91.4.0.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-4129

firefox-esr

Fixed versions: 91.4.0esr-1

firefox-esr

Fixed versions: 91.4.0esr-1

firefox-esr

Fixed versions: 91.4.0esr-1

thunderbird

Fixed versions: 1:91.4.0-1

thunderbird

Fixed versions: 1:91.4.0-1

thunderbird

Fixed versions: 1:91.4.0-1

Complete source record
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