CVE-2016-5290
CRITICALFirefox < 50 and Firefox ESR < 45.5 - Memory Corruption
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (10)
Core 10
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0187
EPSS Percentile
83.4%
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 (3)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
mozilla/firefox
< 45.5.0
mozilla/thunderbird
< 45.5.0
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026