Input validation error in nspr - CVE-2013-5607
Published: November 20, 2013 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33867
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5607
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
nspr
nspr
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Integer overflow in the PL_ArenaAllocate function in Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) before 4.10.2, as used in Firefox before 25.0.1, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.11 and 24.x before 24.1.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.22.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted X.509 certificate, a related issue to CVE-2013-1741.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-5607
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00080.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1791.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1829.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-19.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2820
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-103.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63802
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2031-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2032-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2087-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927687
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=mozilla.dev.tech.nspr/_8AcygMEjSA/mm_cqQzLPFQJ
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01