Input validation error - CVE-2013-1739
Published: October 23, 2013 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33869
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1739
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor:
Affected software:
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-1739
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00016.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1791.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1829.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-19.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2790
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-93.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62966
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2030-1
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894370
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1012656
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.15.2_release_notes
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19254