GHSA-v496-3mj8-fpc6
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022
Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, does not properly restrict public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cryptographic protection mechanisms in ticket handling by leveraging use of a certain value.
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Timeline
- May 13, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (5 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (4 in total, the first dated here)
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References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/129218.html url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.html url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html url
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56858 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56888 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56922 url
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded url
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029720 url
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1491 advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=934545 url
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html url
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html url
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html url
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029721 url
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90886 url
- http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/12c42006aed8 url
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 url
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