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CVE-2014-1558 (GCVE-0-2014-1558)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-07-23 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:42
VLAI
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1559.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1015973 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030620 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030619 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/60628 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2014-07-22 00:00
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