MFSA2016-35 Thunderbird: Buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS (CVE-2016-1950)
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
03/13/2016
07/25/2018
03/16/2016
11/06/2017
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.3 and 3.20.x and 3.21.x before 3.21.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted ASN.1 data in an X.509 certificate.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-38_7
- mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-45_0
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