PT-2016-1439 · Mozilla+4 · Firefox+5

Ekr + 1 · Published 2016-01-26 · Updated 2017-11-04 · CVE-2016-1978

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) versions prior to 3.21 Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 44.0

Description A use-after-free issue in the ssl3 HandleECDHServerKeyExchange function allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impacts by making an SSL handshake at a time of high memory consumption. This can occur during (1) DHE or (2) ECDHE handshake.

Recommendations For Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) versions prior to 3.21, update to version 3.21 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 44.0, update to version 44.0 or later.

Fix

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-00740

CESA-2016_0591

CESA-2016_0685

CVE-2016-1978

DLA-480-1

DSA-3688-1

RHSA-2016:0591

RHSA-2016:0684

RHSA-2016:0685

RHSA-2016_0591

RHSA-2016_0684

RHSA-2016_0685

SUSE-SU-2016:0727-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0777-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0909-1

USN-2973-1

Affected Products

Centos

Firefox

Network Security Services

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 72

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2805 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0777-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2973-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1978 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1978 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-15.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1979 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2973-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0727-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0684.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3688 · Vendor Advisory