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MFSA2014-65 Firefox: Certificate parsing broken by non-standard character encoding (CVE-2014-1558)

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MFSA2014-65 Firefox: Certificate parsing broken by non-standard character encoding (CVE-2014-1558)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/23/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/28/2014
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1559.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-31_0

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