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CVE-2016-1979

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2016-03-08	NSS -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2016-1979 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2016-1979
Phase	Assigned(20160120)

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.

References

Source	Reference
MISC	https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.21.1_release_notes
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-36.html
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185033
CONFIRM	https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa124