CVE-2016-1950
nss: Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in ASN1 certificate parsing (MFSA 2016-35)
Severity
CriticalRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · March 8, 2016
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, could cause it to crash, or execute arbitrary code, using 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 · 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE not specified