CVE-2014-1558

high

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 UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1559.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1015973

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030620

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030619

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-65.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/60628

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-07-23

Updated: 2017-01-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High