Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jun 11, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-9893
CVE-2016-9893
Description
Memory safety bugs were reported in Thunderbird 45.5. 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, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.
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Affected products
30<50.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: <50.1
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
<45.6+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <45.6
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- osv-coords25 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaThunderbird&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Point%20of%20Sale%2011%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP3-TERADATApkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Manager%202.1pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%202.1pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%205pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaThunderbird&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2012
< 128.5.1-1.1+ 24 more
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 50.1.0-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 91.1.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-96.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-96.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-62.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-66.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-62.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-62.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-62.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-96.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-96.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-96.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-96.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-62.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-96.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-96.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-96.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-62.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-96.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-96.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-62.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-62.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0esr-62.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.6.0-20.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
10- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2973.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94885nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1037461nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3757nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94/nvdVendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-95/nvdVendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-96/nvdVendor Advisory
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