Bug 1310509 (CVE-2016-1950)

Summary: CVE-2016-1950 nss: Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in ASN1 certificate parsing (MFSA 2016-35)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: urgent    
Version: unspecifiedCC: ajanorka, emaldona, hkario, huzaifas, kengert, rrelyea, security-response-team, slawomir, slong, szidek
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A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, could cause it to crash, or execute arbitrary code, using the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library.
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Last Closed: 2016-03-29 03:41:57 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1310512, 1310513, 1310514, 1310515, 1310516, 1316002, 1317443, 1317444, 1317445, 1317446, 1317448    
Bug Blocks: 1310521    
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upstream patch on top of nss 3.21, from nss 3.21.1 none

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-02-22 04:57:48 UTC 
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the ASN.1 parsing code of NSS. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted certificate, which when parsed by NSS, could the application linked with NSS to crash or potentially execute code with the permission of the user running such an application.

Applications such as web browsers which parse untrusted web content are specially vulnerable to this issue.
Comment 4 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2016-02-22 16:12:48 UTC 
Created attachment 1129399 [details]
upstream patch on top of nss 3.21, from nss 3.21.1
Comment 8 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-07 03:51:33 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Francis Gabriel
Comment 9 Martin Prpič 2016-03-08 09:09:51 UTC 
External References:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-35
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 03:40:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2016:0371 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0371.html
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 03:54:54 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:0370 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0370.html
Comment 12 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-09 08:43:18 UTC 
Created nss-util tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1316002]
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-23 09:53:02 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Extended Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2016:0495 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0495.html