Security Advisory

CVE-2016-1979

8.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted key data with DER encoding.
Published Date March 13, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory