CVE-2016-9080

Publication date 13 December 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 50.0.2. 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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
thunderbird	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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