Input validation error - CVE-2016-1979

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Input validation error - CVE-2016-1979

Published: March 13, 2016 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33635
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1979
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted key data with DER encoding.


Affected software

nss (Alpine package)
nss (Red Hat package)
nspr (Red Hat package)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI

How to mitigate CVE-2016-1979

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

nss (Alpine package) - update to 3.19.2.3-r0
nss (Red Hat package) - update to 3.21.0-6.el5_11
nspr (Red Hat package) - update to 4.11.0-1.el5_11

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