CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-43535

Use After Free

Published: Dec 08, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A use-after-free could have occured when an HTTP2 session object was released on a different thread, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 93, Thunderbird < 91.3, and Firefox ESR < 91.3.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 93.0 (excluding)
Firefox_esr Mozilla * 91.3.0 (excluding)
Thunderbird Mozilla * 91.3.0 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat firefox-0:91.3.0-1.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat thunderbird-0:91.3.0-2.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat firefox-0:91.3.0-1.el8_4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat thunderbird-0:91.3.0-2.el8_4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support RedHat thunderbird-0:91.3.0-2.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support RedHat firefox-0:91.3.0-1.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support RedHat thunderbird-0:91.3.0-2.el8_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support RedHat firefox-0:91.3.0-1.el8_2 *
Firefox Ubuntu trusty *
Firefox Ubuntu xenial *
Thunderbird Ubuntu bionic *
Thunderbird Ubuntu focal *
Thunderbird Ubuntu hirsute *
Thunderbird Ubuntu trusty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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