GHSA-fhwj-6xh8-h4rw
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 14, 2022
Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1, Thunderbird before 38.1, and other products, does not properly determine state transitions for the TLS state machine, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by blocking messages, as demonstrated by removing a forward-secrecy property by blocking a ServerKeyExchange message, aka a "SMACK SKIP-TLS" issue.
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Timeline
- May 14, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (6 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1086145 url
- https://smacktls.com url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html url
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1185.html url
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1664.html url
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-71.html url
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91787 url
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032783 url
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-2 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2721 advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00025.html url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00034.html url
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3324 url
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html url
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2672-1 url
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2673-1 url
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19_release_notes url
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 url
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