Bug 946947 (CVE-2013-0791) - CVE-2013-0791 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds array read in CERT_DecodeCertPackage (MFSA 2013-40)
Summary: CVE-2013-0791 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds array read in CERT_DecodeCertPackage (MF...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-0791
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 918870 918872 918874 918875
Blocks: 946948
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-04-01 02:13 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 22:35 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-10-01 07:06:28 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1135 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2013-08-05 19:51:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1144 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: nss, nss-util, nss-softokn, and nspr security update 2013-08-07 21:48:32 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1181 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: rhev-hypervisor6 security and bug fix update 2013-08-27 22:53:35 UTC

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
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