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Status published
Medium
CVE-2014-1559
Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote...
Vulnerability Description
Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1558.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030620
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-65.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030619
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1026022
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60628
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
firefox, thunderbird
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 24.0, 24.0.1, 24.1, 24.1.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6
Timeline
Official Publish:
July 23rd, 2014
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.