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CVE-2016-5290

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4.

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
9.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
3.2%
percentile 88%
Public exploits
0
none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

3.21% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.09.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.07.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR
  • Mozilla Firefox

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

  • debian.org /security/2016/dsa-3730 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN, x_transferred
  • rhn.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org /buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/94335 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • securitytracker.com /id/1037298 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
  • security.gentoo.org /glsa/201701-15 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO, x_transferred
  • mozilla.org /security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/ · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • rhn.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
  • mozilla.org /security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/ · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • mozilla.org /security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/ · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

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