Critical severity · published Jun 11, 2018
CVE-2016-5290
Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4
9.8
CVSS
3.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.2% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
before 45.5.0; before 50.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
TH
Thunderbird · Mozilla
before 45.5.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5290
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5290
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
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