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MFSA2016-15 Firefox: Use-after-free in NSS during SSL connections in low memory (CVE-2016-1978)

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MFSA2016-15 Firefox: Use-after-free in NSS during SSL connections in low memory (CVE-2016-1978)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/26/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/10/2016
Modified
11/06/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ssl3_HandleECDHServerKeyExchange function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 44.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by making an SSL (1) DHE or (2) ECDHE handshake at a time of high memory consumption.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-38_8
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-44_0

References

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