CVE-2016-5289 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer8 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.8%
top 17.13%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49. 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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 50.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 50
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 50.0
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 50.0-1 (sid)
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-5gf8-6267-mq38: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49↗2022-05-14
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-11-19
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OSV
CVE-2016-5289: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49↗2016-11-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-11-19
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 50 (MFSA 2016-89)↗2016-11-15
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Debian
CVE-2016-5289: firefox - Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49. Some of these bugs showed eviden...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5289 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 50 (MFSA 2016-89)↗2016-11-15
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