Use-after-free vulnerability in PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey function in Mozilla NSS before 3.21.1

CVE-2016-1979 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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