CVE-2021-43539 Information

Description

Failure to correctly record the location of live pointers across wasm instance calls resulted in a GC occurring within the call not tracing those live pointers. This could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.4.0 Firefox ESR < 91.4.0 and Firefox < 95.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-52/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1739683 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-54/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-53/ https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5026 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00030.html https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8