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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-730-1 firefox-esr security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-752-1 icedove security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3716-1 firefox-esr security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3730-1 icedove security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-6241 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3124-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3141-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.950Z

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

Link: CVE-2016-5290

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:00.373

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:54:00.527

Link: CVE-2016-5290

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Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2016-11-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5290 - Bugzilla

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