PT-2006-6179 · Mozilla+1 · Thunderbird+4

Ulrich Kuehn · Published 2006-11-08 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2006-5462

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library versions prior to 3.11.3 Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 1.5.0.8 Thunderbird versions prior to 1.5.0.8 SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.0.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to forge signatures for SSL/TLS and email certificates when using an RSA key with exponent 3, due to improper handling of extra data in a signature.

Recommendations For Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library versions prior to 3.11.3, update to version 3.11.3 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 1.5.0.8, update to version 1.5.0.8 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 1.5.0.8, update to version 1.5.0.8 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.0.6, update to version 1.0.6 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-5462

DSA-1224-1

DSA-1225-1

DSA-1227-1

HPSBUX02153

RHSA-2006:0733

RHSA-2006:0734

RHSA-2006:0735

RHSA-2006_0733

RHSA-2006_0734

RHSA-2006_0735

Affected Products

Firefox

Nss

Red Hat

Seamonkey

Thunderbird

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