A use-after-poison flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to cause NSS to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library.
Find out more about CVE-2015-7181 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Base Score | 6.8 |
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Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
Access Vector | Network |
Access Complexity | Medium |
Authentication | None |
Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
Integrity Impact | Partial |
Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
Platform | Errata | Release Date |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | RHSA-2015:1981 | 2015-11-04 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.6 | RHSA-2015:2068 | 2015-11-18 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Update Support 6.4 | RHSA-2015:2068 | 2015-11-18 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | RHSA-2015:1981 | 2015-11-04 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.5 | RHSA-2015:2068 | 2015-11-18 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Update Support 6.2 | RHSA-2015:2068 | 2015-11-18 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (nss) | RHSA-2015:1980 | 2015-11-04 |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | nss | Will not fix |