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CVE-2017-5461 (GCVE-0-2017-5461)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-11 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:04
VLAI
Summary
Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.4, 3.22.x through 3.28.x before 3.28.4, 3.29.x before 3.29.5, and 3.30.x before 3.30.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect base64 operations.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Out-of-bounds write in Base64 encoding in NSS
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98050 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1103 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3831 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1100 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1102 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1101 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3872 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 52.1 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 45.9 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , < 52.1 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 53 (custom)
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Date Public
2017-05-10 00:00
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