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MFSA2016-89 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 50 (CVE-2016-5289)

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MFSA2016-89 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 50 (CVE-2016-5289)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/11/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/12/2018
Modified
07/31/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-50_0

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