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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800920
Category:Web application abuses
Title:Multiple Products NSS Library Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Summary:Firefox or Thunderbird or SeaMonkey or Evolution or Pidgin or AOL Instant Messenger Product(s) is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Firefox or Thunderbird or SeaMonkey or Evolution or Pidgin or AOL Instant Messenger Product(s) is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
A flaw exists in the regular expression parser used in the NSS library to match
common names in certificates and may result in a heap based buffer overflow.
It can be exploited via a long domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN)
field of an X.509 certificate, related to the cert_TestHostName function.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation will let the attacker execute arbitrary code in
the context of the affected application and may lead to denial of service.

Affected Software/OS:
Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey/Evolution/Pidgin/AOL Instant Messenger
containing NSS library before 3.12.3.

Solution:
Upgrade to NSS library 3.12.3 or later.

CVSS Score:
9.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2404
1021030
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021030.1-1
1021699
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021699.1-1
273910
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-273910-1
35891
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35891
36088
http://secunia.com/advisories/36088
36102
http://secunia.com/advisories/36102
36125
http://secunia.com/advisories/36125
36139
http://secunia.com/advisories/36139
36157
http://secunia.com/advisories/36157
36434
http://secunia.com/advisories/36434
37098
http://secunia.com/advisories/37098
39428
http://secunia.com/advisories/39428
ADV-2009-2085
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2085
DSA-1874
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1874
MDVSA-2009:197
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:197
MDVSA-2009:216
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:216
RHSA-2009:1185
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1185.html
RHSA-2009:1207
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1207.html
SUSE-SA:2009:048
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html
TA10-103B
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-103B.html
USN-810-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-810-1
USN-810-2
https://usn.ubuntu.com/810-2/
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/MARLINSPIKE/BHUSA09-Marlinspike-DefeatSSL-SLIDES.pdf
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-43.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2010-099504.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512912
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11174
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11174
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8658
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8658
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