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Message-ID: <4EA54117.2050806@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:42:31 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: Reed Loden <reed@...dloden.com>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Elio Maldonado <emaldona@...hat.com>,
        Robert Relyea <rrelyea@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- nss: Did honour /pkcs11.txt and /secmod.db files
 by initialization


Cc-ing Reed on this post yet, so he could clarify
if Mozilla (Security) Team has already assigned a CVE identifier
for this one or not.

Reed?

Thanks && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

On 10/24/2011 12:30 PM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,
>
> a security flaw was found in the way nss, the Network Security
> Services (NSS) set of libraries, performed their initialization (the
> file path for "pkcs11.txt" configuration file was constructed
> incorrectly). When that configuration file was loaded from remote WebDAV
> or Samba CIFS share, it could lead to arbitrary security module
> load, potentially leading to execution of arbitrary code (execution of
> code from untrusted security module).
>
> Upstream bug report:
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052
>
> Other references:
> [2] https://secunia.com/advisories/46557/
> [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388045
> [4] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426#c8
> [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748379
>
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this? (as it looks there isn't one
> for this deficiency yet)
>
> Thank you && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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