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CVE-2016-1979

Published: 13 March 2016

Use-after-free vulnerability in the PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted key data with DER encoding.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
fix was actually in 3.21, not in 3.21.1 as mentioned

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
trusty
Released (44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
upstream
Released (44)
wily
Released (44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1)
xenial Not vulnerable
(45.0+build2-0ubuntu1)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(45.0+build2-0ubuntu1)
zesty Not vulnerable
(45.0+build2-0ubuntu1)
nss
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Not vulnerable
(2:3.21-0ubuntu0.12.04.2)
trusty Not vulnerable
(2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
upstream
Released (3.21)
wily Not vulnerable
(2:3.21-0ubuntu0.15.10.1)
xenial Not vulnerable
(2:3.21-1ubuntu3)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(2:3.21-1ubuntu3)
zesty Not vulnerable
(2:3.21-1ubuntu3)
Patches:
upstream: http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/7033b1193c94
thunderbird
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
trusty
Released (1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
upstream
Released (38.8.0)
wily
Released (1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1)
xenial
Released (1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
yakkety
Released (1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu1)
zesty
Released (1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H