CVE-2017-5461

Published: 20 April 2017

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.4, 3.22.x through 3.28.x before 3.28.4, 3.29.x before 3.29.5, and 3.30.x before 3.30.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect base64 operations.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Ignored
	trusty	Released (53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
	upstream	Released (53.0)
	xenial	Released (53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
	yakkety	Released (53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.10.1)
	zesty	Released (53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.17.04.1)
nss Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	trusty	Released (2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
	upstream	Released (3.28.4, 3.30.1)
	xenial	Released (2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
	yakkety	Released (2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.10.1)
	zesty	Released (2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.17.04.1)
	Patches: upstream: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/77a5bb81dbaa
thunderbird Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	trusty	Released (1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
	upstream	Released (52.1.1)
	xenial	Released (1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
	yakkety	Released (1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1)
	zesty	Released (1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Bugs

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344380 (private)

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