CVE-2013-1739 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1739?

CVE-2013-1739 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Network Security Services, published on 22 Oct 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.2 does not ensure that data structures are initialized before read operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger a decryption failure.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1739?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Network Security Services.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1739?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2013-1739 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1739 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Network Security Services

• CVE-2019-17006 Memory corruption in NSS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-5461 Memory corruption in Firefox Critical 9.8
• CVE-2009-2404 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2017-11695 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11696 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.8

All Mozilla Network Security Services vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1739, DSA-2790-1, GHSA-9j62-mm37-x965.