PT-2016-6346 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+7

Christian Holler + 7 · Published 2016-11-15 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-5290

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions 49 and earlier Firefox ESR versions 45.4 and earlier Thunderbird versions prior to 45.5

Description Memory safety bugs were reported, showing evidence of memory corruption. It is presumed that with enough effort, some of these bugs could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

Recommendations For Firefox versions 49 and earlier, update to version 50 or later. For Firefox ESR versions 45.4 and earlier, update to version 45.5 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 45.5, update to version 45.5 or later.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2307

ALT-PU-2016-2321

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CESA-2016_2780

CESA-2016_2825

CVE-2016-5290

DLA-730-1

DLA-752-1

DSA-3716-1

DSA-3730-1

MGASA-2016-0379

MGASA-2016-0409

MGASA-2017-0323

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:3019-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2861-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_3011-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2016:2780

RHSA-2016:2825

RHSA-2016_2780

RHSA-2016_2825

SUSE-SU-2016:3014-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3080-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3105-1

USN-3124-1

USN-3141-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 2168

• https://mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/45.5.0/releasenotes · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5290 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9064 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3080-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5290 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9068 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9070 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html · Vendor Advisory