CVE-2021-4128

Publication date 22 December 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

When transitioning in and out of fullscreen mode, a graphics object was not correctly protected; resulting in memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox on MacOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 95.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

Notes


mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap


alexmurray

Only affects Firefox for MacOS

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H


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