CVE-2016-5290

CVE Details

Release Date:

2018-06-11

Description

emory 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.

See more information about CVE-2016-5290 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	9.8	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	None	User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	High
Integrity Impact:	High	Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-2780	2016-11-16
Oracle Linux version 5 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2016-2825	2016-11-29
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-2780	2016-11-16
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2016-2825	2016-11-29
Oracle Linux version 7 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-2780	2016-11-16
Oracle Linux version 7 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2016-2825	2016-11-29

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