CVE-2016-1979 Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <45.0esr-1
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- published 13 Mar 2016
- disclosed 13 Mar 2016
Introduced: 13 Mar 2016
CVE-2016-1979 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
firefox-esr
to version 45.0esr-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr
package and not the firefox-esr
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1979
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3576
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3688
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa124
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.21.1_release_notes
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-36.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185033
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0591.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0684.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0685.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84221
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-1979
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2973-1