Bug 1269345 (CVE-2015-7181)

Summary:	CVE-2015-7181 nss: use-after-poison in sec_asn1d_parse_leaf() (MFSA 2015-133)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	carnil, emaldona, sardella, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	nss 3.19.2.1, nss 3.19.4, nss 3.20.1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A use-after-poison flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to cause NSS to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-11-18 06:56:27 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1269354, 1269355, 1269356, 1269357, 1269358, 1269382, 1269383, 1269384, 1269385
Bug Blocks:	1269376

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-10-07 05:52:42 UTC

Mozilla engineers Tyson Smith reported a use-after-poison in the ASN.1 decoder in Network Security Services (NSS). These issues were in octet string parsing and were found through fuzzing and code inspection. If these issues were exploited, they would lead to a potentially exploitable crash. 

These issues were fixed in NSS version 3.19.2.1 and 3.19.4, shipped in Firefox and Firefox ESR, respectively, as well as NSS 3.20.1.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1192028

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-133.html
https://access.redhat.com/articles/2043623

Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2015-11-03 21:41:50 UTC

Fixed upstream in NSS version 3.19.2.1, 3.19.4, and 3.20.1:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19.2.1_release_notes
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19.4_release_notes
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.20.1_release_notes

Upstream commits:

http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/8ac7f47eecbb
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/25cb033147fd

Consolidated fix with all about changes as applied to 3.20 branch:

http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/685d45ec4723

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-04 07:12:13 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2015:1980 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1980.html

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-04 12:49:33 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1981 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1981.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-18 06:28:46 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 AUS
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 AUS - Server Only

Via RHSA-2015:2068 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2068.html