Security Bulletin
Summary
A vulnerability in Network Security Services (NSS) was addressed by IBM MQ Appliance.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2016-1950
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), as used in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR, is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when parsing certain ASN.1 structures. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted X.509 certificate, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111360 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM MQ Appliance M2000
Remediation/Fixes
Apply the iFix for APAR IT14372.
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References
Acknowledgement
None
Change History
13 April 2016 Original version published
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Information
Modified date:
15 June 2018
UID
swg21980621