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CVE-2014-1491 Detail

Description

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, does not properly restrict public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cryptographic protection mechanisms in ticket handling by leveraging use of a certain value.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/12c42006aed8 Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127966.html Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/129218.html Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00005.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/56858 Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/56888 Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/56922 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2858 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2994 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-12.html Third Party Advisory  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded Not Applicable 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65332 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029717 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029720 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029721 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-2 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2119-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html Not Applicable 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=934545 Exploit  Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90886 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-1491
NVD Published Date:
02/06/2014
NVD Last Modified:
07/31/2020
Source:
Mozilla Corporation