CVE-2016-9893 (GCVE-0-2016-9893)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-11 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:07
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Summary
Memory safety bugs were reported in Thunderbird 45.5. 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 < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 45.6
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 50.1 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 45.6 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 45.6 (custom)
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Date Public
2016-12-13 00:00
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