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CVE-2016-1950

Public on 2016-03-10
Modified on 2016-03-10
Description

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, could cause it to crash, or execute arbitrary code, using the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library.

Severity
Critical
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 nss-util 2016-03-10 16:30 ALAS-2016-667

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H