Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting nss-tools package, versions <0:3.19.1-7.el7_1.2


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.48% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-NSSTOOLS-1436128
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed3 Nov 2015

Introduced: 3 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7183  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 nss-tools to version 0:3.19.1-7.el7_1.2 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:1981.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss-tools package and not the nss-tools package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Integer overflow in the PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE implementation in Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.1 and 3.20.x before 3.20.1, as used in Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors.

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