CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-1978

7.3 HIGH Published 2016-03-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-03-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ssl3_HandleECDHServerKeyExchange function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 44.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by making an SSL (1) DHE or (2) ECDHE handshake at a time of high memory consumption.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (<= 43.0.4) • mozilla network security services (<= 3.20.1)

References