CVE-2016-5290

CRITICAL

Firefox < 50 and Firefox ESR < 45.5 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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
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