Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU33869

Input validation error - CVE-2013-1739

Published: October 23, 2013 / Updated: August 4, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU33869

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1739

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.2 does not ensure that data structures are initialized before read operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger a decryption failure.

Affected software

nss (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-1739

Install update from vendor's website.

nss (Alpine package) - update to 3.14.5-r0

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