CVE-2016-5289

CRITICAL

Firefox < 50.0 - Memory Corruption and Remote Code Execution

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49. 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 Firefox < 50.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0181
EPSS Percentile 83.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
mozilla/firefox < 50.0
Published Jun 11, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026