suse · CVE-2016-1979

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Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 13:38:55 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 18:00:19 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-1979 severity important: SUSE including 614 source package names (MozillaFirefox-102.11.0-150200.152.87.1, MozillaFirefox-115.10.0-150200.152.134.1, …), 927 product×package rows across 90 product lines (Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-BYOS, Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-Basic-On-Demand, … (90 product lines)): Fixed 770, Known Affected 157.

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.

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