CVE-2021-29964

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

Description

A locally-installed hostile program could send `WM_COPYDATA` messages that Firefox would process incorrectly, leading to an out-of-bounds read. *This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.11, Firefox < 89, and Firefox ESR < 78.11.

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-2021-29964

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed89.0-1
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

References

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