vulnerability
MFSA2016-85 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 49 (CVE-2016-5256)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Sep 22, 2016 | Oct 25, 2016 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 22, 2016
Added
Oct 25, 2016
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
Description
Mozilla developers Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Nathan Froyd, Honza Bambas, Seth Fowler, and Michael Smith reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 48. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances could potentially exploited to run arbitrary code.
Solution
mozilla-firefox-upgrade-49_0
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