CVE-2014-1490

nss: TOCTOU, potential use-after-free in libssl's session ticket processing (MFSA 2014-12)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · February 4, 2014

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

A race condition was found in the way NSS implemented session ticket handling as specified by RFC 5077. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application using NSS or, in rare cases, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-367 · Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition