vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2021-38504)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 8, 2021
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A security issue has been found in Firefox before version 94 and Thunderbird before version 91.3. When interacting with an HTML input element's file picker dialog with "webkitdirectory" set, a use-after-free could have resulted, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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