Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4 and Thunderbird < 45.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00817.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
n/a n/a affected
Version Status Constraints
n/a affected —

Configuration 1 [-]

OR cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Package CPE Advisory Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
firefox-0:45.4.0-1.el5_11 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5 RHSA-2016:1912 2016-09-21T00:00:00Z
thunderbird-0:45.4.0-1.el5_11 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5 RHSA-2016:1985 2016-10-03T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
firefox-0:45.4.0-1.el6_8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 RHSA-2016:1912 2016-09-21T00:00:00Z
thunderbird-0:45.4.0-1.el6_8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 RHSA-2016:1985 2016-10-03T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
firefox-0:45.4.0-1.el7_2 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 RHSA-2016:1912 2016-09-21T00:00:00Z
thunderbird-0:45.4.0-1.el7_2 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 RHSA-2016:1985 2016-10-03T00:00:00Z

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-636-1 firefox-esr security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-658-1 icedove security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3674-1 firefox-esr security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3690-1 icedove security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-6208 Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4 and Thunderbird < 45.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3076-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3112-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1985.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3674 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3690 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93049 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1277213 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1287204 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288555 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288588 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288780 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289280 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1293347 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294095 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294407 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5257 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5257 cve-icon
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-85/ cve-icon
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-88/ cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Mozilla firefox Esr

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*		 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:49.003Z

Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-5257

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-09-22T22:59:02.647

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-5257

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2016-09-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5257 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses