CVE-2016-1979

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1979
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1979.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-1979
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-03-13T18:59:28.163Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:05:31.048019Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Use-after-free vulnerability in the PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted key data with DER encoding.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "44.0.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.21"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1979.json"