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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-6240 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3124-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.959Z

Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5289

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:00.327

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:54:00.370

Link: CVE-2016-5289

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Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5289 - Bugzilla

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