Use-after-free vulnerability in the PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted key data with DER encoding.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-472-1 icedove security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-472-2 icedove regression update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-480-1 nss security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3576-1 icedove security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3688-1 nss security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-3068 Use-after-free vulnerability in the PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted key data with DER encoding.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2973-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0591.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0684.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0685.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3576 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3688 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-36.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84221 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2973-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa124 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185033 cve-icon cve-icon
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.21.1_release_notes cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1979 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1979 cve-icon
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-36 cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:17:50.096Z

Reserved: 2016-01-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-1979

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-03-13T18:59:28.163

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-1979

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-1979 - Bugzilla

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