CVE-2016-1979

NameCVE-2016-1979
DescriptionUse-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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-472-1, DLA-480-1, DSA-3576-1, DSA-3688-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid133.0-1fixed
firefox-esr (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)68.9.0esr-1~deb8u2fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch91.11.0esr-1~deb9u1fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)115.12.0esr-1~deb10u1fixed
bullseye115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)128.5.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm128.3.1esr-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)128.5.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie128.5.0esr-1fixed
icedove (PTS)jessie1:52.3.0-4~deb8u2fixed
nss (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2:3.26-1+debu8u19fixed
stretch (security)2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u5fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u8fixed
buster, buster (lts)2:3.42.1-1+deb10u9fixed
buster (security)2:3.42.1-1+deb10u8fixed
bullseye2:3.61-1+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)2:3.61-1+deb11u4fixed
bookworm2:3.87.1-1fixed
bookworm (security)2:3.87.1-1+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2:3.106-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)45.0-1
firefox-esrsource(unstable)45.0esr-1
icedovesourcewheezy38.8.0-1~deb7u1DLA-472-1
icedovesourcejessie38.8.0-1~deb8u1DSA-3576-1
icedovesource(unstable)38.8.0-1
iceweaselsourcewheezy(not affected)
iceweaselsourcejessie(not affected)
iceweaselsource(unstable)(unfixed)
nsssourcewheezy2:3.14.5-1+deb7u6DLA-480-1
nsssourcejessie2:3.26-1+debu8u1DSA-3688-1
nsssource(unstable)2:3.21-1

Notes

[jessie] - iceweasel <not-affected> (Only affects Firefox 44.x)
[wheezy] - iceweasel <not-affected> (Only affects Firefox 44.x)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-36/

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