CVE-2016-5290 in Firefox

Summary

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.

If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

• Disclosure: 06/11/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-93632
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 8.0
• EPSS: 0.01874
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5290
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5290
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-5290/