vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-1979: nss security issues
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Mar 13, 2016 | Aug 30, 2017 | Nov 6, 2017 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 13, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Nov 6, 2017
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-nss
References
Rapid7 Labs
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