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CVE-2016-1979

Date: March 13, 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.

Language: Unix

Severity Score

8.8

Related Resources (28)

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0685.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1979

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3688

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0684.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2973-1

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1979

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-1979

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html

Url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185033

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84221

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html

Url: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.21.1_release_notes

Url: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-36.html

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3576

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0591.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1979

Url: https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa124

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-1979

Severity Score

8.8

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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Date: March 13, 2016

Language: Unix

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