CVE-2016-5290
published 2018-06-11CVE-2016-5290: 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…
PriorityP338critical9.8CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
3.22%
86.6th percentile
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
13 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux | — | — |
| debian | firefox | < firefox 50.0-1 (sid) | firefox 50.0-1 (sid) |
| debian | firefox-esr | < firefox 50.0-1 (sid) | firefox 50.0-1 (sid) |
| mozilla | firefox | < 45.5.0 | 45.5.0 |
| mozilla | firefox | < 50.0 | 50.0 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 | 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 | 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= unspecified < 50 | 50 |
| mozilla | firefox_esr | >= unspecified < 45.5 | 45.5 |
| mozilla | thunderbird | < 45.5.0 | 45.5.0 |
| mozilla | thunderbird | >= 0 < 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| mozilla | thunderbird | >= 0 < 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 | 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 |
| mozilla | thunderbird | >= unspecified < 45.5 | 45.5 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.09.8CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv9.8CRITICAL
vendor_debian9.8CRITICAL
vendor_redhat9.8CRITICAL
vendor_ubuntu9.8CRITICAL
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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2016-12-01·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2016-5290 [CRITICAL] Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Title: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.
Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Olli Pettay, Ehsan Akhgari, Gary Kwong,
Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup discovered multiple memory safety issues
in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of
service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5290)
A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some
circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291)
A heap buffer-overflow was discovered in Cairo when processing SVG
content. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message,
an attacker
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2016-11-19·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2016-5289 [CRITICAL] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.
Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard,
Jan-Ivar Bruaroey, Jesse Ruderman, Markus Stange, Olli Pettay, Ehsan
Akhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup discovered multiple
memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to
cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2016-5289, CVE-2016-5290)
A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some
circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291)
A crash wa
Red Hat
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 45.5 (MFSA 2016-90)
vendor_redhat·2016-11-16·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2016-5290 [CRITICAL] Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 45.5 (MFSA 2016-90)
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 45.5 (MFSA 2016-90)
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.
Debian
CVE-2016-5290: firefox - Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4. Some of the...
vendor_debian·2016·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2016-5290 [CRITICAL] CVE-2016-5290: firefox - Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4. Some of the...
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.
Scope: local
sid: resolved (fixed in 50.0-1)
GHSA
GHSA-qf56-xjg6-qx59: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2016-5290 [CRITICAL] CWE-119 GHSA-qf56-xjg6-qx59: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45
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.
OSV
CVE-2016-5290: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45
osv·2018-06-11·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2016-5290 [CRITICAL] CVE-2016-5290: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45
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.
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities
osv·2016-12-01·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2016-5290 [CRITICAL] thunderbird vulnerabilities
thunderbird vulnerabilities
Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Olli Pettay, Ehsan Akhgari, Gary Kwong,
Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup discovered multiple memory safety issues
in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of
service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5290)
A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some
circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291)
A heap buffer-overflow was discovered in Cairo when processing SVG
content. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message,
an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service
via app
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities
osv·2016-11-19·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2016-5289 [CRITICAL] firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard,
Jan-Ivar Bruaroey, Jesse Ruderman, Markus Stange, Olli Pettay, Ehsan
Akhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup discovered multiple
memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to
cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2016-5289, CVE-2016-5290)
A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some
circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291)
A crash was discovered when parsing URLs in some circumstances. If a user
were tricked in to opening a specially crafted w
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
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2018-06-11
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