CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-1498
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-03-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-347
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.
Affected configurations
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• suse linux enterprise software development kit 11
• oracle solaris 11.3
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse project opensuse 11.4
• opensuse project opensuse 12.3
• mozilla seamonkey (< 2.25)
• mozilla firefox (< 28.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-18.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935618 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-18.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935618 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory