vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-23997: Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 24, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 22, 2025

Description

Due to unexpected data type conversions, a use-after-free could have occurred when interacting with the font cache. We presume that with enough effort this could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 88.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-firefoxalpine-linux-upgrade-librewolf
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