CVE-2014-1558

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

CWE-176: CWE-176: Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding

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-2014-1559.

CWE-176: CWE-176: Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Mozilla

First reported 10 years ago

2014-07-23 11:12:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2017-01-07 02:59:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Thunderbird 24.0

24.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 24.0.1

24.0.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 24.1.1

24.1.1

Mozilla Thunderbird

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