CVE-2016-5289

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.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS v2.0 7.5 HIGH

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

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

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.5^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1296649%2C1298107%2C1300129%2C1305876%2C1314667%2C1301252%2C1277866%2C1307254%2C1252511%2C1264053	Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2018-06-11 21:29

Updated : 2024-02-04 19:46

NVD link : CVE-2016-5289

Mitre link : CVE-2016-5289

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-5289

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Products Affected

mozilla

firefox

CWE

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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