CVE-2016-9893
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-11 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 03:07
Severity ?
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.
References
security@mozilla.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.htmlThird Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2973.htmlThird Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94885Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037461Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1319524%2C1298773%2C1299098%2C1309834%2C1312609%2C1313212%2C1317805%2C1312548%2C1315631%2C1287912Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3757Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-95/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-96/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox
MozillaFirefox ESR
MozillaThunderbird
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