Bug 1124571 (CVE-2018-18508)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2018-18508: mozilla-nss: NULL pointer dereference in several CMS functions resulting in a denial of service
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: Marcus Meissner <meissner>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: Security Team bot <security-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: smash_bz, wolfgang.frisch
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/224360/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3:RedHat:CVE-2018-18508:6.5:(AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) CVSSv3:SUSE:CVE-2018-18508:6.5:(AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Found By: Security Response Team Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---

Description Marcus Meissner 2019-02-07 07:34:04 UTC
rh#1671310


A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in several CMS function. A specially crafted data could possibly crash nss.

External References:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.41.1_release_notes

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671310
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-18508