CVE-2021-43539

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
8.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.967

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird (91) (91.4.0)Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird (91) (x64) (91.4.0)Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Mozilla Firefox ESR (91) (x64) (91.4.0)Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Mozilla Firefox ESR (91) (91.4.0)Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Mozilla Firefox (95.0)Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Mozilla Firefox (x64) (95.0)Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Mozilla Firefox For Mac (95.0)Mac
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Mozilla Firefox For Mac (95.0.1)Mac
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Mozilla Firefox For Mac (95.0.2)Mac
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird For Mac (91.4.0)Mac
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Mozilla Firefox ESR for MAC 91.4.0Mac
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Mozilla Firefox ESR for MAC 91.4.1Mac
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla Firefox for Mac 94.0Mac
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Firefox ESR for Mac 91.3.0Mac
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla Firefox for Mac 91.3.0Mac
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac 91.3.0Mac
(RHSA-2021:5013) firefox security update firefox-91.4.0-1.el8_5.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2021:5013) firefox security update firefox-debugsource-91.4.0-1.el8_5.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2021:5014) firefox security update firefox-91.4.0-1.el7_9.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2021:5014) firefox security update firefox-91.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpmLinux
Mozilla Open Source web browser (USN-5186-1) firefox_95.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_i386.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source web browser (USN-5186-1) firefox_95.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source web browser (USN-5186-1) firefox_95.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source web browser (USN-5186-1) firefox_95.0+build1-0ubuntu0.21.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source web browser (USN-5186-1) firefox_95.0+build1-0ubuntu0.21.10.1_amd64.debLinux
(RHSA-2021:5045) thunderbird security update thunderbird-91.4.0-2.el8_5.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2021:5045) thunderbird security update thunderbird-debugsource-91.4.0-2.el8_5.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2021:5046) thunderbird security update thunderbird-91.4.0-3.el7_9.x86_64.rpmLinux
Firefox update (ELSA-2021-5013) firefox-91.4.0-1.0.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpmLinux
Thunderbird update (ELSA-2021-5045) thunderbird-91.4.0-2.0.1.el8_5.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:4000-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) MozillaFirefox-91.4.0-112.83.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:4000-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-91.4.0-112.83.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:4000-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) MozillaFirefox-debugsource-91.4.0-112.83.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:4000-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) MozillaFirefox-devel-91.4.0-112.83.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:4000-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) MozillaFirefox-translations-common-91.4.0-112.83.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
firefox-esr security update(DSA-5026-1) firefox-esr_91.4.1esr-1~deb11u1_amd64.debLinux
thunderbird security update(DSA-5034-1) thunderbird_91.4.1-1~deb10u1_i386.debLinux
thunderbird security update(DSA-5034-1) thunderbird_91.4.1-1~deb10u1_amd64.debLinux
thunderbird security update(DSA-5034-1) thunderbird_91.4.1-1~deb11u1_amd64.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client (USN-5248-1) thunderbird_91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_i386.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client (USN-5248-1) thunderbird_91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client (USN-5248-1) thunderbird_91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.debLinux

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-322725Mozilla Thunderbird (91) (91.4.0)
PATCH-322726Mozilla Thunderbird (91) (x64) (91.4.0)
PATCH-322722Mozilla Firefox (95.0)
PATCH-322723Mozilla Firefox (x64) (95.0)
PATCH-607000Mozilla Firefox For Mac (124.0)
PATCH-607000Mozilla Firefox For Mac (124.0)
PATCH-607000Mozilla Firefox For Mac (124.0)
PATCH-611353Mozilla Thunderbird For Mac (128.12.0)
PATCH-607001Mozilla Firefox ESR for MAC 115.9.0
PATCH-607001Mozilla Firefox ESR for MAC 115.9.0
PATCH-611870Mozilla Firefox For Mac (142.0.1)
PATCH-611808Mozilla Firefox ESR for MAC 128.14.0
PATCH-611870Mozilla Firefox For Mac (142.0.1)
PATCH-611807Mozilla Thunderbird For Mac (142.0)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234