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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2016-5290

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2018-07-30T12:35:43.593

Link: CVE-2016-5290

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

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

Links: CVE-2016-5290 - Bugzilla