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CVE-2016-5289 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 1.81% · 82.7th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

1.81%

82.7th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	firefox	0, 24.0+build1-0ubuntu1, 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	firefox	0, 41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu1, 42.0+build2-0ubuntu1

Timeline

Nov 17, 2016 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5289 third-party-advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/ third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3124-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5289 third-party-advisory

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