CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-1979

8.8 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])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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 configurations

• mozilla firefox (<= 44.0.2) • mozilla network security services (<= 3.21)

References