CVE-2016-1950

CVE Details

Release Date:	2016-03-08
Impact:	Critical	What is this?

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.

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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 (nss)	ELSA-2016-0371	2016-03-09
Oracle Linux version 6 (nss-util)	ELSA-2016-0370	2016-03-09
Oracle Linux version 7 (nss-util)	ELSA-2016-0370	2016-03-09
Oracle VM version 3.2 (nss)	OVMSA-2016-0066	2016-06-20
Oracle VM version 3.3 (nss-util)	OVMSA-2016-0034	2016-03-09
Oracle VM version 3.4 (nss-util)	OVMSA-2016-0034	2016-03-09