Bug 1077018 – CVE-2014-1498 Mozilla: crypto.generateCRMFRequest does not validate type of key (MFSA 2014-18)

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Bug 1077018 - (CVE-2014-1498) CVE-2014-1498 Mozilla: crypto.generateCRMFRequest does not validate type of key (MFSA 2014-18)

Summary:	CVE-2014-1498 Mozilla: crypto.generateCRMFRequest does not validate type of k...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2014-1498

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2014-03-16 22:58 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2014-03-18 14:50 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2014-03-16 23:16:18 EDT
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-03-16 22:58:54 EDT

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

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