Mozilla Network Security Services CVE-2017-5461 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

by CIRT Team

Description: 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.

Impact: An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial-of-service conditions.

Mitigation: Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) version 3.28.4 fixes this issue.

Reference URL’s:

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98050/info
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5461
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1100.html
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1101.html
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1102.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-5461
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5461

CIRT Team

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