CVE-2016-9893 — 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 Buffer11 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.7%
top 14.13%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
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:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages10 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Enterprise Linux 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
🔴Vulnerability Details
5📋Vendor Advisories
4Red Hat
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Debian▶
CVE-2016-9893: firefox - Memory safety bugs were reported in Thunderbird 45.5. Some of these bugs showed ...↗2016
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2016-9893 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 50.1 and Firefox ESR 45.6 (MFSA 2016-95)↗2016-12-13