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MFSA2016-94 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 50.1 (CVE-2016-9897)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Dec 13, 2016

Added

Dec 14, 2016

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during WebGL functions using a vector constructor with a varying array within libGLES. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.

Solution

mozilla-firefox-upgrade-50_1

References

CVE-2016-9897
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-9897
CWE-119
EUVD-EUVD-2016-10686
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-94.html
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-10686

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