CVE-2016-5290

Publication date 16 November 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4. 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 Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 16.10 yakkety
Fixed 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
thunderbird 16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3141-1
    • Thunderbird vulnerabilities
    • 1 December 2016
    • USN-3124-1
    • Firefox vulnerabilities
    • 19 November 2016

Other references