CVE-2014-1498 Information

Description

The crypto.generateCRMFRequest method in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 does not properly validate a certain key type which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors that trigger generation of a key that supports the Elliptic Curve ec-dual-use algorithm.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00022.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00016.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-18.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935618 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01