Bug 1395098 – CVE-2016-5289 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 50 (MFSA 2016-89)

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Bug 1395098 - (CVE-2016-5289) CVE-2016-5289 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 50 (MFSA 2016-89)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5289 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 50 (MFSA 2016-89)

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5289

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2016-11-15 01:51 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-11-18 09:52 EST (History)
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-11-15 01:51:51 EST

Mozilla developers and community members Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey, Jesse Ruderman, and Markus Stange reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 49. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-89.html


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Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Mozilla developers

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