Integer overflow in the PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE implementation in Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS)…

Description

Integer overflow in the PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE implementation in Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.1 and 3.20.x before 3.20.1, as used in Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.8% · top 6.0% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs
• CWE-189 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-189 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (34)

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1034069 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa119 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:2081 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• GLSA-201512-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:1981 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205157 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-3406 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2015:2229 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.20.1_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2785-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:1926 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:1981 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-2819-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 77415 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 91787 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19.4_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2015:1942 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:1980 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-2790-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• DSA-3393 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19.2.1_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134268/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-nss-Updates.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2015:2245 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• GLSA-201605-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• SSA:2015-310-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-133.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:1978 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 07:43 UTC.