CVE-2016-1979
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8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.71%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2016-1979
To remediate CVE-2016-1979, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 45.0esr-1 or later
- —upgrade to 38.8.0-1~deb7u1 or later
- —upgrade to 38.8.0-1~deb8u1 or later
- —upgrade to 2:3.21-1 or later
Is CVE-2016-1979 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 45.0esr-1
- from 0, < 38.8.0-1~deb7u1
- from 0, < 38.8.0-1~deb8u1
- from 0, < 2:3.21-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |