Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting nss package, versions [,3.21)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.84% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NSS-2384926
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Mar 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-1978  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nss to version 3.21 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Use-after-free vulnerability in the ssl3_HandleECDHServerKeyExchange function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 44.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by making an SSL (1) DHE or (2) ECDHE handshake at a time of high memory consumption.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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