CVE-2016-9893 Information

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:H

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2973.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94885 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037461 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=13195242C12987732C12990982C13098342C13126092C13132122C13178052C13125482C13156312C1287912 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3757 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-95/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-96/

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