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CVE-2015-7181

nss: use-after-poison in sec_asn1d_parse_leaf() (MFSA 2015-133)

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Severity

Critical

Red Hat Product Security

6.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · November 3, 2015

Updated · June 27, 2026

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 score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE not specified