vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-38498: Use After Free

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 3, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 22, 2025

Description

During process shutdown, a document could have caused a use-after-free of a languages service object, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 93, Thunderbird < 91.2, and Firefox ESR < 91.2.

Solutions

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