Bug 1992417 (CVE-2021-29986) - CVE-2021-29986 Mozilla: Race condition when resolving DNS names could have led to memory corruption
Summary: CVE-2021-29986 Mozilla: Race condition when resolving DNS names could have le...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-29986
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 1990527 1990528 1990529 1990530 1990532 1990533 1990544 1990545 1990546 1990547 1990548 1990549
Blocks: 1990542
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-08-11 03:57 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-09-16 05:00 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: thunderbird 78.13, firefox 78.13
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Last Closed: 2021-08-16 13:28:23 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3154 0 None None None 2021-08-16 10:06:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3155 0 None None None 2021-08-16 10:11:18 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3156 0 None None None 2021-08-16 09:42:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3157 0 None None None 2021-08-16 10:19:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3159 0 None None None 2021-08-16 09:40:25 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3160 0 None None None 2021-08-16 10:37:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3161 0 None None None 2021-08-16 09:29:21 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3162 0 None None None 2021-08-16 10:01:19 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2021-08-11 03:57:55 UTC 
A suspected race condition when calling `getaddrinfo` led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. 

*Note: This issue only affected Linux operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.*



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-35/#CVE-2021-29986
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2021-08-16 09:29:19 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:3161 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3161
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2021-08-16 09:40:22 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:3159 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3159
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2021-08-16 09:42:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:3156 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3156
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2021-08-16 10:01:17 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:3162 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3162
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2021-08-16 10:06:28 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2021:3154 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3154
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2021-08-16 10:11:16 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:3155 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3155
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2021-08-16 10:19:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:3157 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3157
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2021-08-16 10:37:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2021:3160 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3160
Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-08-16 13:28:23 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-2021-29986
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