Bug 1077018 (CVE-2014-1498)

Summary: CVE-2014-1498 Mozilla: crypto.generateCRMFRequest does not validate type of key (MFSA 2014-18)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-03-17 02:58:54 UTC 
Mozilla developer David Keeler reported that the crypto.generateCRFMRequest method did not correctly validate the key type of the KeyParams argument when generating ec-dual-use requests. This could lead to a crash and a denial of service (DOS) attack. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-18.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges David Keeler as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6