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CVE-2016-5290 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html	CVE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169	CVE	Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/	CVE	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/	CVE	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

see all 20 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-119	Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
mozilla firefox	< 45.5.0 < 50.0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
mozilla thunderbird	< 45.5.0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux	8.0
CPE cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

6 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 25, 2025	CPE Deprecation Remap	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 30, 2018	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Jun 13, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]

CVE-2016-5290 Details

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