A race condition was found in the way NSS implemented session ticket handling as specified by RFC 5077. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application using NSS or, in rare cases, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application.
Find out more about CVE-2014-1490 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 5.1 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (nss) | RHSA-2014:1246 | 2014-09-16 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (nss) | RHSA-2014:0917 | 2014-07-22 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | nss | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | nss | Will not fix |
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