CVE-2014-1492

CVE Details

Release Date:	2014-03-18
Impact:	Low	What is this?

Description

It was found that the implementation of Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) hostname matching in NSS did not follow the RFC 6125 recommendations. This could lead to certain invalid certificates with international characters to be accepted as valid.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	2.6
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2014-1246	2014-09-17
Oracle Linux version 6 (nspr)	ELSA-2014-0917	2014-07-22
Oracle Linux version 6 (nss)	ELSA-2014-0917	2014-07-22
Oracle Linux version 6 (nss-util)	ELSA-2014-0917	2014-07-22
Oracle Linux version 7 (nss)	ELSA-2014-1073	2014-08-18
Oracle Linux version 7 (nss-softokn)	ELSA-2014-1073	2014-08-18
Oracle Linux version 7 (nss-util)	ELSA-2014-1073	2014-08-18
Oracle VM version 3.2 (nss)	OVMSA-2016-0066	2016-06-20