CVE-2015-7182
Public on 2015-11-05
Modified on 2015-11-04
Description
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to cause NSS to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library.
Severity
Critical
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 1 | jss | 2015-11-05 | ALAS-2015-608 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | nspr | 2015-11-05 | ALAS-2015-608 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | nss | 2015-11-05 | ALAS-2015-608 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | nss-util | 2015-11-05 | ALAS-2015-608 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
| Score Type | Score | Vector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| NVD | CVSSv3 | 9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |