CVE-2021-29962

Firefox for Android would become unstable and hard-to-recover when a website opened too many popups. This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 89.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701673
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-23/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701673
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-23/