Bug 1942787 (CVE-2021-23987)

Summary:	CVE-2021-23987 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 87 and Firefox ESR 78.9
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Doran Moppert <dmoppert>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	erack, jhorak, nobody, stransky, tpopela
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	firefox 78.9, thunderbird 78.9	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this issue as: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 86 and Firefox ESR 78.8. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-03-25 17:35:23 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1939796, 1939797, 1939798, 1939799, 1939800, 1939801, 1939805, 1939806, 1939807, 1939808, 1939809, 1939810
Bug Blocks:	1939794

Description Doran Moppert 2021-03-25 00:47:57 UTC

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 86 and Firefox ESR 78.8. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-11/#CVE-2021-23987

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2021-03-25 00:48:01 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Alexis Beingessner, Tyson Smith, Julien Wajsberg, Matthew Gregan

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-25 12:19:32 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:0990 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0990

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-25 12:30:49 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:0991 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0991

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-25 12:56:05 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:0995 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0995

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-25 12:56:55 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:0993 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0993

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-25 12:57:27 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:0989 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0989

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-25 12:57:56 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:0994 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0994

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-25 13:33:21 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2021:0996 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0996

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-25 13:33:58 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2021:0992 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0992

Comment 10 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-03-25 17:35:23 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-23987