Bug 946947 – CVE-2013-0791 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds array read in CERT_DecodeCertPackage (MFSA 2013-40)

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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...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2013-0791

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

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	918870 918872 918874 918875
Blocks:	946948
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Reported:	2013-03-31 22:13 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2013-10-01 03:06 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2013-10-01 03:06:28 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1135	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2013-08-05 15:51:35 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1144	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: nss, nss-util, nss-softokn, and nspr security update	2013-08-07 17:48:32 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1181	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: rhev-hypervisor6 security and bug fix update	2013-08-27 18:53:35 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-31 22:13:50 EDT

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 06:23:36 EDT

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 11:55:04 EDT

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 13:51:10 EDT

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 14:54:29 EDT

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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