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CVE-2014-1560

MEDIUM
4.3
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

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 ASCII character encoding in a required context.

How to fix

Remediation Available
firefoxUbuntu
Fixed in:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2295-1
thunderbirdUbuntu
Fixed in:1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2296-1

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

1.11%probability of exploitation in 30 days
62ndpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 62% of all known CVEs.

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