CVE-2016-5290

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical

CVSS9.8

Exploit probability—

Product

Mozilla Firefox

PublishedJun 11, 2018

First seenJun 11, 2018

How to fix

Update

mozilla firefox45.5.0, 50.0 or later
mozilla thunderbird45.5.0 or later

Vendor advisories

debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
mozilla firefox	v < 45.5.0, v < 50.0	45.5.0, 50.0
mozilla thunderbird	v < 45.5.0	45.5.0
debian debian_linux	8.0	—

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