CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-1978

Published: Mar 13, 2016 | Modified: Nov 04, 2017
CVSS 3.x
7.3
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
5.1 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 43.0.4 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat nspr-0:4.11.0-1.el5_11 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat nss-0:3.21.0-6.el5_11 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat nspr-0:4.11.0-0.1.el6_7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat nss-0:3.21.0-0.3.el6_7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat nss-util-0:3.21.0-0.3.el6_7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat nspr-0:4.11.0-1.el7_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat nss-0:3.21.0-9.el7_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat nss-softokn-0:3.16.2.3-14.2.el7_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat nss-util-0:3.21.0-2.2.el7_2 *
Firefox Ubuntu precise *
Firefox Ubuntu trusty *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Firefox Ubuntu wily *
Nss Ubuntu precise *
Nss Ubuntu trusty *
Nss Ubuntu upstream *
Nss Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Nss Ubuntu wily *
Thunderbird Ubuntu devel *
Thunderbird Ubuntu precise *
Thunderbird Ubuntu trusty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu upstream *
Thunderbird Ubuntu wily *
Thunderbird Ubuntu xenial *
Thunderbird Ubuntu yakkety *
Thunderbird Ubuntu zesty *

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