Bug 1315565 (CVE-2016-1978) - CVE-2016-1978 nss: Use-after-free in NSS during SSL connections in low memory (MFSA 2016-15)
Summary: CVE-2016-1978 nss: Use-after-free in NSS during SSL connections in low memory...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-1978
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1316003 1323648 1323649 1323650 1323651 1323652
Blocks: 1310521
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-08 05:44 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:49:30 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0591 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: nss, nss-util, and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2016-04-05 15:19:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0684 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2016-04-25 16:14:15 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0685 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: nss, nspr, nss-softokn, and nss-util security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2016-04-25 15:57:46 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-08 05:44:23 UTC 
Mozilla developer Eric Rescorla reported that a failed allocation during DHE and ECDHE handshakes would lead to a use-after-free vulnerability. 

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-15.html
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-08 05:44:33 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Eric Rescorla
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-09 08:43:44 UTC 
Created nss tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1316003]
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-05 11:20:08 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:0591 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0591.html
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-25 11:58:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:0685 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0685.html
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-25 12:15:12 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2016:0684 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0684.html
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