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CVE-2016-5290 - log back

CVE-2016-5290 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ Critical
Remote	+ Remote
Type	+ Arbitrary code execution
Description	+ Mozilla developers and community members Olli Pettay, Christian Holler, Ehsan Akhgari, Jon Coppeard, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, Philipp, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4. 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.
References	+ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/#CVE-2016-5290
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