CVE-2016-5290

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 50 and Firefox ESR 45.5

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/

References

• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/

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