CVE-2016-5290 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=13097202C12970622C13037102C10184862C12925902C13013432C13014962C13080482C13083462C12995192C12869112C1298169 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8