PT-2017-12186 · Mozilla+1 · Network Security Services+1

Brian Carpenter · Published 2017-12-27 · Updated 2020-03-16 · CVE-2017-11697

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a floating point exception and crash, via a crafted cert8.db file. This is due to a problem in the hash open function in hash.c.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-11697

ECHO-6387-473D-9BBA

Affected Products

Debian

Network Security Services

References · 16

• 🔥 http://geeknik.net/9brdqk6xu · Exploit
• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Aug/17 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11697 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11697 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-11697 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11697 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-37 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/nss · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11697 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-11697 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11697 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11697 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1039153 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/100345 · Note
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143735/NSS-Buffer-Overflows-Floating-Point-Exception.html · Note