CVE-2014-1544

CVE Details

Release Date:	2014-07-22
Impact:	Critical	What is this?

Description

A race condition was found in the way NSS verified certain certificates. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash an application using NSS or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	6.8
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (nspr)	ELSA-2014-0916	2014-07-22
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2014-0916	2014-07-22
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 (nspr)	ELSA-2014-0916	2014-07-22
Oracle Linux version 7 (nss)	ELSA-2014-0916	2014-07-22
Oracle VM version 3.2 (nspr)	OVMSA-2016-0065	2016-06-20
Oracle VM version 3.2 (nss)	OVMSA-2016-0066	2016-06-20