Published: 13/03/2016 Updated: 04/11/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8

VMScore: 605

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

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Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird ...

Multiple security issues have been found in Icedove, Debian's version of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client: Multiple memory safety errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 3880-1~deb8u1 For the unstable distribution (sid), these prob ...

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in NSS, the cryptography library developed by the Mozilla project CVE-2015-4000 David Adrian et al reported that it may be feasible to attack Diffie-Hellman-based cipher suites in certain circumstances, compromising the confidentiality and integrity of data encrypted with Transport Layer Se ...

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way NSS handled DHE (DiffieHellman key exchange) and ECDHE (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange) handshake messages A remote attacker could send a specially crafted handshake message that, when parsed by an application linked against NSS, would cause that application to crash or, under certain special ...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-36 Use-after-free during processing of DER encoded keys in NSS Announced March 8, 2016 Reporter Tim Taubert Impact High Products Firefox, Firefox ESR, NSS, Thunderbird Fixed in ...

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way NSS processed certain DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) encoded cryptographic keys An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted DER encoded certificate which, when parsed by an application compiled against the NSS library, could cause that application to crash, or execute arbitrary code ...

NVD-CWE-Other https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.21.1_release_notes http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-36.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185033 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa124 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0591.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84221 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0685.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0684.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3576 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2973-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3688 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2973-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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