CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-18508

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 22, 2020 | Modified: Feb 18, 2021
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

In Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.36.7 and before 3.41.1, a malformed signature can cause a crash due to a null dereference, resulting in a Denial of Service.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Network_security_services Mozilla * 3.36.7 (excluding)
Network_security_services Mozilla 3.41 (including) 3.41.1 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat nspr-0:4.21.0-2.el8_0 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat nss-0:3.44.0-7.el8_0 *
Nss Ubuntu bionic *
Nss Ubuntu cosmic *
Nss Ubuntu devel *
Nss Ubuntu trusty *
Nss Ubuntu upstream *
Nss Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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