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CVE-2016-1950

Published: 8 March 2016

Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.3 and 3.20.x and 3.21.x before 3.21.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted ASN.1 data in an X.509 certificate.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
trusty
Released (45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
upstream
Released (45.0)
wily
Released (45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.15.10.1)
xenial Not vulnerable
(45.0+build2-0ubuntu1)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(45.0+build2-0ubuntu1)
zesty Not vulnerable
(45.0+build2-0ubuntu1)
nss
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (2:3.21-0ubuntu0.12.04.3)
trusty
Released (2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2)
upstream
Released (3.21.1)
wily
Released (2:3.21-0ubuntu0.15.10.2)
xenial
Released (2:3.21-1ubuntu4)
yakkety
Released (2:3.21-1ubuntu4)
zesty
Released (2:3.21-1ubuntu4)
Patches:
upstream: http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/b9a31471759d
thunderbird
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (1:38.7.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
trusty
Released (1:38.7.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
upstream
Released (38.7)
wily
Released (1:38.7.2+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1)
xenial
Released (1:38.7.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
yakkety
Released (1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu1)
zesty
Released (1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H