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MFSA2012-39 Firefox: NSS parsing errors with zero length items (CVE-2012-0441)

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MFSA2012-39 Firefox: NSS parsing errors with zero length items (CVE-2012-0441)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/05/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/14/2012
Modified
01/19/2018

Description

The ASN.1 decoder in the QuickDER decoder in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.13.4, as used in Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, Thunderbird 5.0 through 12.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a zero-length item, as demonstrated by (1) a zero-length basic constraint or (2) a zero-length field in an OCSP response.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-10_0_5
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-13_0

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