Critical severity · published Jun 11, 2018
CVE-2016-9893
Memory safety bugs were reported in Thunderbird 45.5
9.8
CVSS
2.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Memory safety bugs were reported in Thunderbird 45.5. 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 < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.
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)2.6% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
before 50.1; before 45.6.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
5.0; 6.0; 7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
5.0; 6.0; 7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
5.0; 6.0; 7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Aus · Redhat
7.3; 7.4 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Eus · Redhat
7.3; 7.4; 7.5 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
5.0; 6.0; 7.0 · source: NVD
TH
Thunderbird · Mozilla
before 45.6.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9893
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9893
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.html
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2973.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94885
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037461
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1319524%2C1298773%2C1299098%2C1309834%2C1312609%2C1313212%2C1317805%2C1312548%2C1315631%2C1287912
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
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