| Name | CVE-2021-29986 |
| Description | A suspected race condition when calling getaddrinfo led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. *Note: This issue only affected Linux operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.13, Thunderbird < 91, Firefox ESR < 78.13, and Firefox < 91. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2740-1, DLA-2745-1, DSA-4956-1, DSA-4959-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 144.0-1 | fixed |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | bullseye | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 140.4.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 128.14.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 140.4.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 128.14.0esr-1~deb13u1 | fixed | |
| trixie (security) | 140.4.0esr-1~deb13u1 | fixed | |
| forky, sid | 140.4.0esr-1 | fixed | |
| thunderbird (PTS) | bullseye | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:140.4.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1:128.14.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 1:140.4.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 1:128.14.0esr-1~deb13u1 | fixed | |
| trixie (security) | 1:140.4.0esr-1~deb13u1 | fixed | |
| forky | 1:140.3.1esr-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 1:140.4.0esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firefox | source | (unstable) | 91.0-1 | |||
| firefox-esr | source | stretch | 78.13.0esr-1~deb9u1 | DLA-2740-1 | ||
| firefox-esr | source | buster | 78.13.0esr-1~deb10u1 | DSA-4956-1 | ||
| firefox-esr | source | bullseye | 78.13.0esr-1~deb11u1 | DSA-4956-1 | ||
| firefox-esr | source | (unstable) | 78.13.0esr-1 | |||
| thunderbird | source | stretch | 1:78.13.0-1~deb9u1 | DLA-2745-1 | ||
| thunderbird | source | buster | 1:78.13.0-1~deb10u1 | DSA-4959-1 | ||
| thunderbird | source | bullseye | 1:78.13.0-1~deb11u1 | DSA-4959-1 | ||
| thunderbird | source | (unstable) | 1:78.13.0-1 |
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/#CVE-2021-29986
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-34/#CVE-2021-29986
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-36/#CVE-2021-29986