CVE-2016-5289 in Firefox

Summary

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49. 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.

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• Disclosure: 06/11/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-93631
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.3
• EPSS: 0.01811
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5289
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5289
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-5289/