CVE-2014-1491
MEDIUMEPSS 91th pctlDescription
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.
How to fix
Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
High risk: more likely to be exploited than 91% of all known CVEs.
References
- kb.juniper.net
- lists.fedoraproject.org
- lists.fedoraproject.org
- lists.opensuse.org
- lists.opensuse.org
- lists.opensuse.org
- lists.opensuse.org
- secunia.com
- secunia.com
- secunia.com
- debian.org
- debian.org
- oracle.com
- oracle.com
- oracle.com
- oracle.com
- oracle.com
- securityfocus.com
- securitytracker.com
- securitytracker.com
- securitytracker.com
- ubuntu.com
- ubuntu.com
- ubuntu.com
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- security.gentoo.org
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