CVE-2016-9893: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Mozilla Firefox: before 50.1 (fixed in 50.1); before 45.6.0 (fixed in 45.6.0)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 45.6.0 (fixed in 45.6.0)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2018-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.