Resource exhaustion in Mozilla NSS and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2016-1978

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Resource exhaustion in Mozilla NSS and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2016-1978

Published: October 20, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU82285
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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-2016-1978
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Mozilla NSS
Mozilla Firefox
Software vendor:
Mozilla

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by making an SSL (1) DHE or (2) ECDHE handshake at a time of high memory consumption


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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