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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-1978: Vulnerability in Firefox

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 13, 2016
Added
May 29, 2017
Modified
Feb 1, 2022

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.

Solutions

oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-developer-yasm-1-3-0-0-175-3-14-0-2-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-45-3-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-45-3-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-45-4-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-data-firefox-bookmarks-45-4-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0
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