CVE-2014-1559

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1558.

4.3

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 0.55%

Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory mozilla.org

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01	vendor advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030620	vdb entry
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-65.html	vendor advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030619	vdb entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1026022
http://secunia.com/advisories/60628	third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-1559?: CVE-2014-1559 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-1559?: To fix CVE-2014-1559, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-1559 being actively exploited in the wild?: As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2014-1559 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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