CVE-2016-5289

critical

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
arch		fixed	`50.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`50.0-1`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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