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Debian: CVE-2021-38496: firefox-esr, thunderbird -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-38496: firefox-esr, thunderbird -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/03/2021
Created
11/30/2021
Added
11/29/2021
Modified
01/05/2022

Description

During operations on MessageTasks, a task may have been removed while it was still scheduled, resulting in memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.15, Thunderbird < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 78.15, and Firefox < 93.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-firefox-esr
  • debian-upgrade-thunderbird

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