CVE-2014-1559

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-07-22
Bugzilla:
1121480: CVE-2014-1558 CVE-2014-1559 CVE-2014-1560 Mozilla: Certificate parsing broken by non-standard character encoding (MFSA 2014-65)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1558.

Find out more about CVE-2014-1559 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, or the version of firefox as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 thunderbird Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler as the original reporter.

External References

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