CVE-2016-9066

A buffer overflow resulting in a potentially exploitable crash due to memory allocation issues when handling large amounts of incoming data. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2018-06-11

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Firefox (Mozilla)
• Firefox Esr (Mozilla)
• Thunderbird (Mozilla)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299686
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/