Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free error in the PK11ImportCert() function when adding NSSCertificate structures. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), as used in Mozilla Firefox could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a floating point exception in hashopen() in 'hash.c'. By using the NSS tool certutil and malformed cert8.db file, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), as used in Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when using certain cryptographic primitives. By sending an overly long argument, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.

Last updated 24 July 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024

The Network Security Services (NSS) library before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox; GnuTLS before 2.6.4 and 2.7.4; OpenSSL 0.9.8 through 0.9.8k; and other products support MD2 with X.509 certificates, which might allow remote attackers to spoof certificates by using MD2 design flaws to generate a hash collision in less than brute-force time. NOTE: the scope of this issue is currently limited because the amount of computation required is still large.

A flaw was found in the way NSS handled CCS (ChangeCipherSpec) messages in TLS 1.3. This flaw allows a remote attacker to send multiple CCS messages, causing a denial of service for servers compiled with the NSS library. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects NSS versions before 3.58.

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in several CMS function. A specially crafted data could possibly crash nss.

External References:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS3.41.1releasenotes

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.16.2.1, 3.16.x before 3.16.5, and 3.17.x before 3.17.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 32.0.3, Mozilla Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.8.1 and 31.x before 31.1.1, Mozilla Thunderbird before 24.8.1 and 31.x before 31.1.2, Mozilla SeaMonkey before 2.29.1, Google Chrome before 37.0.2062.124 on Windows and OS X, and Google Chrome OS before 37.0.2062.120, does not properly parse ASN.1 values in X.509 certificates, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof RSA signatures via a crafted certificate, aka a "signature malleability" issue.

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to ensure that the DER encoding of an ASN.1 length is properly formed by the definitelengthdecoder function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a long byte sequence for an encoding to bypass restrictions and conduct data-smuggling attacks.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ASN.1 decoder 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 cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted OCTET STRING data.

Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-poison in the secasn1dparseleaf() function. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.

A vulnerability found in nss. By this security vulnerability, nss client auth crash without a user certificate in the database and this can lead us to a segmentation fault or crash.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the hashopen function in lib/dbm/src/hash.c in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact using a crafted cert8.db file.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the getpage function in lib/dbm/src/hpage.c in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact using a crafted cert8.db file.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the allocsegs function in lib/dbm/src/hash.c in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact using a crafted cert8.db file.

Integer overflow in the PLARENAALLOCATE 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.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.3 and 3.20.x and 3.21.x before 3.21.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted ASN.1 data in an X.509 certificate.

The ASN.1 decoder in the QuickDER decoder in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.13.4, as used in Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, Thunderbird 5.0 through 12.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a zero-length item, as demonstrated by (1) a zero-length basic constraint or (2) a zero-length field in an OCSP response.

The CERTDecodeCertPackage function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), as used in Mozilla Firefox before 20.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, Thunderbird before 17.0.5, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, SeaMonkey before 2.17, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and memory corruption) via a crafted certificate.

DISPUTED Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) 3.x, with certain settings of the SSLENABLERENEGOTIATION option, does not properly restrict client-initiated renegotiation within the SSL and TLS protocols, which might make it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by performing many renegotiations within a single connection, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1473. NOTE: it can also be argued that it is the responsibility of server deployments, not a security library, to prevent or limit renegotiation when it is inappropriate within a specific environment.

A heap overflow flaw was found in a regular expression parser in the NSS library used to match common names in certificates. A malicious site could present a carefully crafted certificate in such a way as to trigger the heap overflow leading to a crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running a browser such as firefox.

The overflow happens when the browser checks if the hostname of the site you are visiting matches the Common Name (CN) field of the presented certificate. This check (certTestHostName) only happens automatically if the certificate is one that is signed by a Certificate Authority you have previously trusted. If the attacker presents a malicious self-signed certificate, or one signed by an untrusted CA, the user is presented with a dialog box about the certificate before the vulnerable function is called. If the user chooses to accept the certificate then the vulnerable function is called and the heap overflow happens. So this issue does require slightly more user interaction to be exploited.

Co-incidentally, the handling of regular expressions for NSS versions 3.12.3 and above was changed to use a different and simpler regular expression routine which is not vulnerable to this issue. Therefore where a system has NSS 3.12.3 installed, it is not vulnerable to this issue by default. (Although it is possible to change Firefox back to use the old vulnerable library it is not something that is expected users to have done, and is not an obvious documented ability)

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Firefox uses the system provided NSS library. This library was updated to a versions greater than 3.12.3 by RHBA-2009:1161 on 20th July 2009. Therefore systems updated to RHBA-2009:1161 are protected by default from this issue.

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Firefox uses the system provided NSS library. This library is due to be updated to a version greater than 3.12.3 and this will probably happen within the week (so before the embargo lifts).

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 we do not ship Firefox but instead SeaMonkey which provides the NSS library. SeaMonkey will need updating to correct this issue.

In his upcoming Blackhat paper and presentation Dan Kaminsky highlights some more issues he has found relating to SSL hash collisions and related vulnerabilities.

His second issue is all about inconsistencies in the interpretation of subject x509 names in certificates. Specifically "issue 2, attack 2c" regarding NULL terminators in a Common Name field. An attacker could create a malicious certificate containing a NULL, which, if they were able to get it signed, could confuse a client into accepting it by mistake.

According to the paper this is said to affect Firefox.

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) 3.14 before 3.14.5 and 3.15 before 3.15.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via invalid handshake packets.

The CERTVerifyCert function in lib/certhigh/certvfy.c in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) 3.15 before 3.15.3 provides an unexpected return value for an incompatible key-usage certificate when the CERTVerifyLog argument is valid, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted certificate.

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.2 does not ensure that data structures are initialized before read operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger a decryption failure.

Integer overflow in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) 3.15 before 3.15.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large size value.

A security issue has been reported in NSS, which can be exploited by a malicious user to disclose certain information.

The issue arises due to an error within the "sslDo1stHandshake()" function in lib/ssl/sslsecur.c, which can be exploited to potentially return unencrypted and unauthenticated data from PRRecv. Successful exploitation requires false start to be enabled.

The issue is said to be fixed in NSS 3.15.4.

References: https://bugs.gentoo.org/showbug.cgi?id=498172 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS3.15.4releasenotes

Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showbug.cgi?id=919877

Patch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=825813

nss before version 3.30 is vulnerable to a remote denial of service during the session handshake when using SessionTicket extension and ECDHE-ECDSA.

It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group.