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Alpine: multiple firefox-esr packages: security update to 78.15.0-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404444

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - During operations on MessageTasks, a task may have been removed while it was still scheduled, resulting in
 memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.15,
 Thunderbird < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 78.15, and Firefox < 93. (CVE-2021-38496)

 - Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 92 and Firefox ESR 91.1. 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 Thunderbird < 78.15, Thunderbird < 91.2,
 Firefox ESR < 91.2, Firefox ESR < 78.15, and Firefox < 93. (CVE-2021-38500)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-38496

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-38500

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 404444

Version: Revision 1.33

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-38500

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-38496, CVE-2021-38500