CVE-2015-7181
Public on 2015-11-05
Modified on 2015-11-04
Description
A use-after-poison 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.
CVSS v3 Base Score
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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 |