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...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-1498
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1074395
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Reported: 2014-03-17 02:58 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 03:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-03-17 03:16:18 UTC
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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.

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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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