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CVE-2021-29981 (GCVE-0-2021-29981)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-17 19:12 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:24
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Summary
An issue present in lowering/register allocation could have led to obscure but deterministic register confusion failures in JITted code that would lead to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 91 and Thunderbird < 91.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Live range splitting could have led to conflicting assignments in the JIT
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 91 (custom)
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