CVE-2016-9066

moderate-risk
Published 2018-06-11

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.

Do I need to act?

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20.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 79% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (3)

Affected Vendors

Debian Mozilla

References (18)

Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299686
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/
Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299686
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/
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moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 14/34 · Moderate
Exposure 9/34 · Low