CVE-2016-5290

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.

• CWE-119

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730Third Party Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/Vendor Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/Vendor Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730Third Party Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/Vendor Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/Vendor Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/Vendor Advisory

Published

Jun 11, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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