CVE-2016-1979

9 documents8 sources
Severity
8.8HIGH
EPSS
0.7%
top 27.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Network Security Services
Timeline
PublishedMar 13
Latest updateMay 17

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox44.0.2
▶Debianfirefox-esr< 45.0esr-1+3
▶Debiannss< 2:3.21-1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-3v3j-hr3p-qv6j: Use-after-free vulnerability in the PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-1979: Use-after-free vulnerability in the PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3↗2016-03-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-1979: Use-after-free vulnerability in the PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3↗2016-03-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2016-05-19
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Red Hat
nss: Use-after-free during processing of DER encoded keys in NSS (MFSA 2016-36)↗2016-03-08
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Debian
CVE-2016-1979: firefox - Use-after-free vulnerability in the PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey fun...↗2016
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-1979 CVE-2016-1978 nss: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2016-03-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-1979 nss: Use-after-free during processing of DER encoded keys in NSS (MFSA 2016-36)↗2016-03-07
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