Mozilla Network Security Services up to 3.12.6 Network Security Service denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Mozilla Network Security Services up to 3.12.6 (Web Browser). This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Network Security Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.2 does not ensure that data structures are initialized before read operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger a decryption failure.

The weakness was presented 10/22/2013 (Website). The advisory is shared at developer.mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2013-1739 since 02/13/2013. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 71380 (CentOS 6 : nspr / nss / nss-util (CESA-2013:1829)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 350479 (Amazon Linux Security Advisory for nss: ALAS-2013-265).

Upgrading to version 3.12.7 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (87846) and Tenable (71380). See 11206, 11827, 11825 and 11826 for similar entries.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 71380
Nessus Name: CentOS 6 : nspr / nss / nss-util (CESA-2013:1829)
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OpenVAS ID: 892790
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 2790-1 (nss - uninitialized memory read
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Network Security Services 3.12.7

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10/11/2013 +240 days 🔍
10/22/2013 +11 days 🔍
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10/29/2013 +7 days 🔍
12/12/2013 +44 days 🔍
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03/24/2015 +466 days 🔍
03/30/2016 +372 days 🔍
01/08/2022 +2110 days 🔍

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Vendor: mozilla.org

Advisory: RHSA-2013:1135
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CVE: CVE-2013-1739 (🔍)
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X-Force: 87846
Vulnerability Center: 57816 - [cpujul2014-1972956, cpuoct2014-1972960, cpujan2015-1972971] Mozilla Network Security Services on Multiple Mozilla Products and Oracle Multiple Products Remote Denial of Service, High
SecurityFocus: 62966 - Network Security Services Uninitialized Data Read Security Vulnerability

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Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 01/08/2022 20:03
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (75), 02/03/2019 10:22 (5), 01/08/2022 19:47 (3), 01/08/2022 19:55 (1), 01/08/2022 20:03 (1)
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