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CVE-2016-1979 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 at...

HighCVSS 8.8 EPSS 2.2%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

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.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
debian/firefox-esr(Debian:12) < 45.0esr-1 45.0esr-1
debian/firefox-esr(Debian:13) < 45.0esr-1 45.0esr-1
debian/firefox-esr(Debian:14) < 45.0esr-1 45.0esr-1
debian/nss(Debian:12) < 2:3.21-1 2:3.21-1
debian/nss(Debian:13) < 2:3.21-1 2:3.21-1
debian/nss(Debian:14) < 2:3.21-1 2:3.21-1
mozilla Firefox <= 44.0.2 No fix listed
mozilla network security services <= 3.21 No fix listed

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