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F5: CVE-2016-1979: K20145801: Mozilla NSS vulnerability CVE-2016-1979

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Apr 18, 2016

Added

Jun 17, 2026

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2016-1979
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-1979
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K20145801
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-3068
EUVD-EUVD-2016-3068

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