CVE-2021-23979

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 85. 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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23979

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23979.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed86.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed86.0-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.