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CVE-2014-1498

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Entered Topic
2014-03-19 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2014-1498
Phase Assigned(20140116)

Description

The crypto.generateCRMFRequest method in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 does not properly validate a certain key type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors that trigger generation of a key that supports the Elliptic Curve ec-dual-use algorithm.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-18.html
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935618
SUSE SUSE-SU-2014:0418
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2014:0419
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2014:0448
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2014:0584