Bug 946947 (CVE-2013-0791)

Summary:	CVE-2013-0791 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds array read in CERT_DecodeCertPackage (MFSA 2013-40)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	emaldona, security-response-team
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	918870, 918872, 918874, 918875
Bug Blocks:	946948

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-04-01 02:13:50 UTC

Mozilla community member Ambroz Bizjak reported an out-of-bounds array read in the CERT_DecodeCertPackage function of the Network Security Services (NSS) libary when decoding a certificate. When this occurs, it will lead to memory corruption and a non-exploitable crash.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-40.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-04-04 10:23:36 UTC

This issue affects the version of nss as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

This issue does not affect the version of nss as shipped with Fedora 17 and Fedora 18.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-05 15:55:04 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1135 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1135.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-07 17:51:10 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1144 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1144.html

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-27 18:54:29 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-6

Via RHSA-2013:1181 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1181.html