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MFSA2016-36 Thunderbird: Use-after-free during processing of DER encoded keys in NSS (CVE-2016-1979)

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Severity	CVSS	Published	Added	Modified
7	(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)	2016-03-13	2016-04-15	2024-11-27

Severity

CVSS

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

Published

2016-03-13

Added

2016-04-15

Modified

2024-11-27

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(s)

mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-38_8mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-45_0

References

CVE-2016-1979
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-1979
URL-http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-36.html

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