Memory safety bugs were reported in Thunderbird 45.5. 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 < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade firefox-esr | Jun 11, 2018 | Jun 11, 2018 |
| Arch Linux | arch-linux-upgrade-latest | Jul 11, 2025 | Jun 11, 2018 | |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbird | Jan 27, 2017 | Dec 13, 2016 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade firefox-esr | Dec 15, 2016 | Dec 13, 2016 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade firefox-esrUpgrade linux-thunderbirdUpgrade seamonkeyUpgrade libxulUpgrade firefoxUpgrade linux-seamonkeyUpgrade thunderbirdUpgrade linux-firefox | Dec 14, 2016 | Dec 14, 2016 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird.Upgrade www-client/firefox.Upgrade www-client/firefox-bin.Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird-bin. | Oct 30, 2017 | Jan 3, 2017 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp1 | — | Upgrade firefox | Aug 28, 2019 | Jun 11, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade firefox | Aug 28, 2019 | Jun 11, 2018 |
| Mfsa2016 94 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 50.1 | Dec 14, 2016 | Dec 13, 2016 |
| Mfsa2016 95 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 45.6 | Dec 14, 2016 | Dec 13, 2016 |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 45.6 | Dec 30, 2016 | Dec 28, 2016 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade mail/thunderbird to version 45.6.0-0.175.3.17.0.4.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade web/browser/firefox to version 45.6.0-0.175.3.16.0.3.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade web/browser/firefox/plugin/firefox-java to version 45.6.0-0.175.3.16.0.3.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade web/data/firefox-bookmarks to version 45.6.0-0.175.3.16.0.3.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade mail/thunderbird/plugin/thunderbird-lightning to version 45.6.0-0.175.3.17.0.4.0 on Solaris 11.3 | May 29, 2017 | May 29, 2017 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox | Dec 15, 2016 | Dec 14, 2016 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox-debuginfo | Dec 15, 2016 | Dec 13, 2016 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade mozillafirefox-translations-otherUpgrade mozillathunderbird-translations-commonUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-buildsymbolsUpgrade mozillafirefox-develUpgrade mozillafirefox-translations-commonUpgrade mozillathunderbirdUpgrade MozillaFirefox-translationsUpgrade mozillathunderbird-translations-otherUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-develUpgrade mozillafirefox | Dec 19, 2016 | Dec 13, 2016 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade firefoxUpgrade thunderbird | Dec 14, 2016 | Dec 13, 2016 |
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