critical9.8
CVE-2016-5290
Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4.
Impact
Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | before 45.5.0 before 50.0 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | before 45.5.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 8.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/