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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-23977: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-23977: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/26/2021
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Firefox for Android suffered from a time-of-check-time-of-use vulnerability that allowed a malicious application to read sensitive data from application directories. Note: This issue is only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox

References

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